Characters Quote by Joy Fielding

I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have…

— Jennifer Weiner

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

— Kathy Reichs

The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and…

— Whitley Strieber

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

— Phil Klay

I don't write a lot of fiction.

— John Rzeznik

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and…

— Ayana Mathis

I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story,…

— Emily Susan Rapp

To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong…

— Ben Dolnick

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters;…

— Penelope Lively

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do…

— Sufjan Stevens

If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to…

— Douglas Coupland

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