Closeness Quote by John Irving

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.

— Ellen Glasgow

Imagination is really dependent on memory and observation, these things that we think of as part of nonfiction writing, actually.

— Elif Batuman

In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of…

— Rohinton Mistry

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

I consider myself foremost a novelist with the intent of crafting stories that people will remember.

— Nicholas Sparks

“I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.…

— Colm Tóibín

As a fiction writer you train yourself to think about situations subjectively. I don't really care for narratives that are just A, B, C,…

— Oscar Hijuelos

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

— Beth Moore

Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.

— Siri Hustvedt

“Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.”

— Ann Marie Aguilar

The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart…

— Tom Robbins