Art Quote by Kinky Friedman

Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails...

— William Petersen

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

— Khaled Hosseini

“Writing a book and not publishing it, is like building a boat and never sailing it - UNTHINKABLE!”

— Tony Jones

“Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.”

— Ann Marie Aguilar

Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted.…

— Dean Koontz

“The writing of fiction is a dance between truth and invention”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“The beauty of fiction is it need not be factual and the writer's imagination can travel as far from reality as he or she…

— Sheldon Friedman

“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.”

— James Van Pelt

“A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.”

— Wally Lamb

“Novel writing, I soon discovered, is like channel swimming: a slow and steady stroke over a long distance in a cold, dark sea. If…

— Ann Patchett

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.

— Wally Lamb

“Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction can be difficult, lonely job; it’s like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There’s plenty…

— Stephen King