About Quote by Gregory Maguire

Fiction was a massive, massive part of my formative years, far more so than television ever was, and I always hoped that my future…

— Steve Backshall

That's why I have to be a fiction writer, because I can't remember what just happened or where I went last week or what…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

Writing fiction is the 'job' I try to keep at the center of things. The movie stuff has been a wonderful accident, though not…

— Jonathan Raymond

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

— J. A. Jance

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in…

— Janet Fitch

By the time I wrote my memoir, 'Men We Reaped,' I had been running from writing it for a long time. When the events…

— Jesmyn Ward

I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the…

— Karen Traviss

You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.

— Alice Mattison

For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirror on every page”

— Peter Ackroyd

When you write fiction, you're like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It's funny how things come…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

— Thomas Perry