Because Quote by John Updike

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

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

— David Leavitt

I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and…

— Helen Fielding

I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.

— Tom Stoppard

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

Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

— Robert Boswell

Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much…

— Edwidge Danticat

Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

— Robert Boswell

That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better in fiction.

— Marcy Dermansky

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

— J. M. Coetzee

I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you can sneak…

— W. P. Kinsella

“If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if your're writing…

— Shannon L. Alder