Action Quote by Garry Disher

Any setting can be a good setting for a novel.

— Chris Pavone

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

— Lauren Groff

Writing is akin to method acting. Before the writer can render a fully convincing world, he or she must inhabit that world, and every…

— Richard North Patterson

Fiction needs writers and readers, and writers should cultivate both.

— Laura Lippman

Setting is my primary joy as a writer, building a world and watching people respond to it.

— Nicola Griffith

Settings are obviously important - and as a writer, you have to respect what was real at the time of the story you're writing.…

— Joan Lingard

I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.

— Errol Morris

What you create when you're teaching fiction writing is a kind of literary salon, not a social club or a mutual admiration society, not…

— John Dufresne

Setting can be something that is a major player in a scene, something that makes the mood leap from the page. But if an…

— Kim Smith

Maybe I have a one-track mind, but the best writers and thinkers are focusing on nonfiction these days; this is the genre where a…

— Lee Gutkind

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

I find it only natural for a storyteller to be interested in storytelling and, for anyone who spends the better part of his or…

— Norman Lock