Adventure Quote by Jonathan Franzen

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

— Flannery O'Connor

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

— Sheila Heti

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

— Don Roff

Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your…

— Chris Abani

When I read any book, if it's really good I get lost in the writing whether it's fiction or non-fiction. I'm in the story…

— Jeff Feuerzeig

The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.

— Terry Tempest Williams

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

— Michael Korda

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written…

— Edmund White

writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

— Rose Wilder Lane

Good novel are written by people who are not frightened.

— George Orwell