Fiction Quote by Ethan Canin Download Open image “If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting.” — Ethan Canin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Ifs Insulting Like you
I think a lot of people who read fiction are interested in subtlety. But they wouldn't like my stuff. It's a bit too violent… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them. — Richard Harris Copy Share Image
“If someone likes my fiction more for the quality of my prose rather than the quality of my storytelling, I'm doing something wrong.” — Jamie Ford Copy Share Image
Some people don't like my fiction, because they prefer the nonfiction. But moving around keeps the work fresh for me and, hopefully, for my… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love,… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
I work with wood a lot. I like building. I think of building. I would love to buy land on some water somewhere and… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base. — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
“The forgotten of this country have a consistent history of turning on their champions, and I suppose the way working men and women have… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story. — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
There are some advantages to being a writer: you do generally get better as you get older. I think I understand things better. When… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that,… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
I think talent has a huge amount to do with concentration, concentration rather than the athletic ability of your neurons. If you can concentrate… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
“Now she was smiling. “And while you’re at it,” she said, “here’s another one for you. Theodicy. That’s another word Leibniz used. As long… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
