Fiction Quote by Karen Thompson Walker

There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare,…

— Flannery O'Connor

“When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something to be…

— Carl Henegan

Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal

— Anonymous

That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some…

— Alan Lightman

The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to be minimal…

— George Saunders

“The one thing is fiction in a novel and the other thing is reality. With fiction you don't make a fuss - you can…

— Anonymous

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer…

— Rachel Kushner

The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.

— James Kelman

“You should really restrict these flights of fancy to your fiction, where I can redline them on grounds of verbosity and excessive allusion.”

— M. Pierce

In times of trial, for inspiration, people want to look to real people rather than to fiction.

— Simon Beaufoy

That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better in fiction.

— Marcy Dermansky

Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through the door…

— Mu Xin