Changed Quote by Jennifer Egan

At least I hope - that the fiction I've written so far has flaws but has mostly been successful.

— William T. Vollmann

I don't think writing fiction has changed my worldview.

— Donald Ray Pollock

I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.

— Gary Shteyngart

With any piece of writing, you're hoping that it will change something, and it seldom does.

— Ron Chernow

I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and…

— Marge Piercy

Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.

— John Updike

It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise.

— Nancy Thayer

The problem with the term "The New Fiction" is that the fiction will inevitably be old. The same could have been said about the…

— Lee Klein

It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply.

— Vivian Gornick

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

— Jonathan Evison

Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it's going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns…

— Barbara Kingsolver

One of the more depressing things about reading your fiction 25 years later, or 10 years later, is you realize the only things going…

— Samuel R. Delany