About Quote by Gillian Cross

I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my…

— Jenny Offill

One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

— Marilynne Robinson

Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep way, I…

— Kate Christensen

The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don't…

— Jim Woodring

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

— Sheila Heti

It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who is different.

— Alice Mattison

I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.

— Joan Larkin

I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good. And my…

— Joy Fielding

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

— Roxane Gay

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

The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist…

— Octavia E. Butler

Sometimes I'll write something that's purely autobiographical, and sometimes pure fiction, and sometimes a mix.

— Frankie Cosmos