Can do Quote by Elliott Colla

I know how to write fiction well.

— Akhil Sharma

You learn a lot, writing fiction.

— Penelope Lively

I always say writing fiction isn't something you teach. It's something you do, and only experimentation - i.e. doing it, either badly or good…

— Peter Orner

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you…

— Jean M. Auel

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do…

— Sufjan Stevens

I was an English major in college, I went to a creative-writing program, and all my life, I really read and thought about fiction…

— Tom Perrotta

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and…

— Ayana Mathis

I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I couldn't figure out how you could be a novelist and make any money, which…

— Anna Quindlen

I'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you can learn to do that well…

— Robert J. Sawyer

To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong…

— Ben Dolnick

I researched fiction writing for months before I taught my first class, much of it looking for strong techniques from bestselling authors.

— James Thayer

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know…

— Hunter S. Thompson