Books Quote by Jeffrey Robinson

“Fiction is nothing but non-fiction couched to conceal the identity of the writer.”

— Tapan Ghosh

“...fiction writing is like duck hunting. You go to the right place at the right time with the right dog. You get into the…

— Ann Patchett

“But fiction is not, as many nonwriters seem to think, a random grab bag of made-up whimsies, as undisciplined and unreasoned as a dream.…

— Helen Benedict

“I’m sure there are people who are content to run errands and report for work on time and wait, with an enlivening eagerness, for…

— Michael Cunningham

“The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.”

— Tom Wiseman

“Fiction is a world where only the reader enjoys”

— Mbutoh

“I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's…

— Flannery O'Connor

“Fiction is what happens inside a writer's head. Reality takes place outside it”

— Barry A. Whittingham

I only like non-fiction. After 30 pages of fiction, I think: what nonsense are they trying to write.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

“Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in our heads…

— George Saunders

“No fiction is good fiction unless it is true to life, and yet no life is worth relating unless it be a life out…

— William Gerhardie

“Non-fiction is a well of plenty.”

— Nathaniel Barber