Against Quote by Joanna Scott

Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes.

— Alexander McCall Smith

My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my…

— Gary Lutz

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do…

— Sufjan Stevens

I don't go out of my way to write Weird Fiction, or in any other genre. Some of my stuff easily slips into the…

— Karin Tidbeck

When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some order, and…

— Alice McDermott

When you write fiction, you're like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It's funny how things come…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue? You have…

— Paul Beatty

I find it very satisfying to write because you can purge many things and vent what you feel under the mask of fiction.

— Steven Berkoff

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just…

— Candace Bushnell

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

— Roxane Gay

Fiction stymies me with its possibility. I can't see the bottom and I freeze, cling to the side, or just choke. In nonfiction, particularly…

— Melissa Febos

Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are…

— Terry Brooks