About Quote by John Irving

In college, I'd gone abroad to get away from a campus where I felt I didn't fit in. And I started writing fiction, at…

— Kim Brooks

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is…

— Gillian Cross

I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started…

— Ann Hood

I came from a childhood where I spent a lot of time alone and a lot of time just living with my imagination, and…

— Chris Cornell

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

— Danielle Trussoni

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I…

— Jami Attenberg

Even though I read voraciously as a child, I never saw myself in books. Without narratives to expand my ideas of who I could…

— Jesmyn Ward

Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in…

— Lloyd Alexander

Finally, in my early 30s, I started writing fiction for the first time as an adult. That felt so scary, and I spent a…

— Julia Glass

The other reason I didn't want to fictionalize it is because one of the main points of publishing a memoir in nonfiction was that…

— Melissa Febos

For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my initial attraction…

— David Grann