Book Quote by Jonathan Dee

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material…

— Terry Brooks

my experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I find there.

— Marion Dane Bauer

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

— Monica Johnson

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for…

— Junot Diaz

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

People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale,…

— Dan Chaon

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

— Leonard Mlodinow

What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was…

— V. S. Naipaul

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

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

— Phil Klay