Fiction Quote by Jeanette Winterson

“Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of…

— Eudora Welty

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

— Daniel Keys Moran

“On some level, most novelists write fiction to create order out of chaos. When you shape a fictional story, you can tie every loose…

— Kevin Guilfoile

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

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.

— Wally Lamb

Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life…

— Varley O'Connor

“I know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all genres -…

— Sara Sheridan

Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one true thing…

— Andrea Barrett

Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.

— Neil Gaiman

All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

— Zadie Smith

“Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot.”

— Dennis R. Miller

“But I’m not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out for us.…

— Anthony Horowitz