Day Quote by Lisa Joy

I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything…

— Jennifer Egan

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote…

— Octavia Butler

“I stretched out on the bed and slept. It was twilight when I awakened and turned on the light. I felt better, no longer…

— John Fante

I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction I write…

— Jennifer Egan

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

“I began to write again. I wrote just for the fuck of it.”

— Fred Leebron

'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

— Taiye Selasi

The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.

— Jess Walter

Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when I would…

— Jonathan Ames

Every time I wrote fiction, I was discouraged, and every time I wrote nonfiction, I was encouraged.

— Ron Chernow

I've always loved to write, and I wrote fiction all my life. That's what I thought I was going to do in my life…

— Jake Shears

I started writing nonfiction because nonfiction is well-suited to subjects that, if you wrote them as fiction, people would say, "I don't believe this.…

— Debra Monroe

In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I started to write. And I wrote and wrote all through high school.

— Vera Nazarian