Able Quote by Henry Rollins

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

I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for…

— Junot Diaz

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

— Marilynne Robinson

But I think writing should be a bit of a struggle. We're not writing things that are going to change the world in big…

— Evie Wyld

I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.

— Aaron Belz

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But…

— Denis Johnson

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

If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer.…

— Donald Harington

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

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

— Sheila Heti

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

— Wally Lamb

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is…

— Gillian Cross