Choice Quote by Jennifer Egan

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

— Alan Cheuse

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

— Anthony Doerr

Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

— Robert Boswell

I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.

— Kate Grenville

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

— Etgar Keret

Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

— Robert Boswell

The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people.

— John Grisham

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

— Piers Anthony

Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want to see…

— David Foster Wallace

writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Fiction needs writers and readers, and writers should cultivate both.

— Laura Lippman