How-to-write-fiction Quote by L.L. Barkat

“I wish life were a fiction novel. Then everyone would have to do what I say.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

“fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“That's why people loved stories so, I realized in that instant, because they found in them what was missing from their own lives, the…

— Brandy Purdy

“Don't you think it would be interesting if you could read the story of your life - written perfectly truthfully by an omniscient author?”

— Jean Webster

“If I knew what I was thinking [...] I would never have become a writer.”

— Amélie Nothomb

“All fiction is based on some form of reality—otherwise we would never have the inspiration or knowledge to dream up the realistic situations we…

— Rene Folsom

“What is imagination? I don’t believe in fiction. In my mind everything comes from a part of who a writer is.”

— Anonymous

“... except when I get down and write...then I let my imagination go to places I never knew existed and my characters invade my…

— Mark Alders

“I liked these short stories so much, but I couldn’t write like this, I didn’t have the imagination. I didn’t have any imagination at…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Why not make a fiction of the mind's fictions?”

— Natasha Trethewey

“In my life I haven’t done anything worth writing about, but that’s OK. That’s why I write fiction.”

— Jarod Kintz