Allan poe Quote by H. P. Lovecraft

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told…

— Philip Pullman

Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.

— Emily Gould

I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay.

— Susan Sontag

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we…

— John Green

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books are all…

— Scott Westerfeld

I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel.

— Dennis Green

When it comes to writers, I'm a huge fan of Ian McEwan. I've never taken a writing course, but reading and deconstructing his novels…

— Deborah Copaken Kogan

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr

I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Stories often take their own course once you start to write them, especially when you have the benefit of a writers' room and a…

— Bryan Konietzko

Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.

— Elliott Colla

I suppose most writers are following Twain's advice to tackle what they know, and my own readings habits drew me to writers who seemed…

— Kevin Keck