I am Quote by Jenny Zhang

I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.

— Lorin Stein

I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and…

— Helen Fielding

And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?

— Djuna Barnes

A lot of things that I write about have happened to people around me, if not necessarily to me or in the organizations I've…

— Ravi Subramanian

Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when I would…

— Jonathan Ames

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

— Jonathan Evison

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.

— Beth Moore

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

— V. S. Naipaul

It often happens that people come to believe in their own fictions.

— Robert Rhodes James

If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.

— Christopher Paolini

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

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

— Bill Gates