Character Quote by Jonathan Meades

A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology…

— Chuck Palahniuk

As a young kid I assumed that everybody was sort of on the same wavelength as I was and then I found out in…

— George Saunders

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

— Robert E. Howard

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

I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything…

— Will Self

When you write fiction, you're like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It's funny how things come…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who is different.

— Alice Mattison

As writers and readers, we're drawn to conflict. It's that ancient theory of plot that's written on the whiteboard during every fiction workshop, characters…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

If fiction changes things, it's usually because it's a powerful way of exploring social issues. And it helps us to understand people who are…

— Gillian Cross

I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than…

— Walter Kirn

When I first started writing in the beginning, it was very much surrounding the idea of escape and of fantasy, then when I got…

— Arlo Parks

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

— Colm Toibin