Alone Quote by Lionel Shriver

However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that…

— Wally Lamb

“An author has to fit into the skin of her characters, to imagine being trapped by unfortunate and sometimes violent circumstances she herself has…

— Loretta H. Marion

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

— Monica Johnson

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

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

— Sara Sheridan

The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be fiction or journalism, is that it is simultaneously the most intimate and the most anonymous of…

— Will Self

I've never talked to anyone writing a book on me. I've had so much written about me that is made up, usually something that…

— Warren Beatty

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

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

— Roxane Gay

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who…

— Flannery O'Connor

I do think there's some aspect of being a novelist that is a little crazy making.

— Anna Quindlen

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