Editing Quote by Isabel Allende

fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.

— Isabel Allende

As a young kid I assumed that everybody was sort of on the same wavelength as I was and then I found out in…

— George Saunders

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

— Beth Moore

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

In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of…

— Rohinton Mistry

Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

— Etgar Keret

Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or…

— Bret Easton Ellis

There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown…

— David Hewson

Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original,…

— John Gardner

Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.

— Robert J. Sawyer

Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.

— Siri Hustvedt

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

— Anthony Doerr