Admiration Quote by John Dufresne

I always say writing fiction isn't something you teach. It's something you do, and only experimentation - i.e. doing it, either badly or good…

— Peter Orner

Fiction is a place where people can meet, where they take the time to very seriously examine and think about the experiences of other…

— Phil Klay

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and…

— Ayana Mathis

“what people write reflects what they believe—fiction is where you go to tell or read the truth that people will stare or laugh at…

— Michael Marshall

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

— Phil Klay

I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good. And my…

— Joy Fielding

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and…

— Neil Gaiman

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you…

— Vikram Seth

“Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconcile, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's…

— Ben Marcus

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

— Anne Michaels

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.

— Wally Lamb