Fiction Quote by Geraldine Brooks

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.

— Beth Moore

People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs,…

— Mark Leyner

I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and…

— Helen Fielding

The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.

— James Kelman

It's our job as fiction writers to provide a delight that nothing else can - to such a degree that people have no choice…

— Jennifer Egan

Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are…

— Terry Brooks

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

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.

— Wally Lamb

Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction -…

— David Mamet

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

With non-fiction, there is the struggle to be accurate. With fiction, it is a bit different: the desire to let imagination take you to…

— Amitava Kumar

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

— Phil Klay