Books Quote by James Thayer

The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and I think…

— Jess Walter

Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting in a…

— David Grann

I always say writing fiction isn't something you teach. It's something you do, and only experimentation - i.e. doing it, either badly or good…

— Peter Orner

If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so…

— Elliott Colla

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

— Anonymous

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying…

— John Dalton

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

When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these…

— Lily Rabe

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 had originally been looking at writing, including fiction.

— Ben Rhodes

I learned to write from authors. I didn't know any, but I read their books.

— Cynthia Rylant

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