Breathe Quote by Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes,…

— Jodi Picoult

“The best sentences orient us, like stars in the sky, like landmarks on a trail. They remain the test, whether or not to read…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction writers learn about the development of metaphor, the use of rhythm, the way that language is compacted in order to express the feelings…

— Edward Hirsch

The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to be minimal…

— George Saunders

In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people…

— Christopher Guest

I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers.

— Lauren Mayberry

It's something that's difficult to explain but I think all writers work this way to some extent, whether we're aware of it or not.…

— Mary J. Miller

If something is being written about a lot, there's a conversation there; there's a dialogue there. There's probably a reason for it that it…

— Jesse Andrews

“Life is a cracked surface at best. Fiction is a nice edifice. / every word/sentence/paragraph gives a writer an opportunity to reinforce or deliberately…

— K. J. Bishop

There are really so many subtleties of meaning and observation that very often are not expressed by writers.

— Joachim Frank

Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.

— Will Hobbs

As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.

— Stephen King