About Quote by Jonathan Coleman

A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any…

— Michael Cunningham

“...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend…

— E. B. White

“Was the dividing line between life and fiction as hazy for other people as it was for a writer?”

— Dean Koontz

“Life might be stranger than fiction, but fiction allows many writers to more accurately portray life to their readers.”

— Jaime Buckley

I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms…

— Rick Bass

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

— Doris Lessing

Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.

— John Updike

“Living life distracts from writing. Writing distracts from living life. Therein lies the conundrum.”

— Ksenia Anske

“A writer who isn't writing isn't really alive.”

— Robin McKinley

“you can’t empathize, if you can’t or aren’t willing to put yourself into someone else’s place with all the compassion and insight you can…

— Joe Mynhardt

“The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.”

— Tom Wiseman