Believe Quote by M. F. K. Fisher

In terms of the symbolism, I think that if you do it right, writing is a bit like dreaming.

— Steven Knight

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr

I had originally been looking at writing, including fiction.

— Ben Rhodes

In my mind, there's not a great difference between what people call fiction and non-fiction. So in that sense, I'm like an early-18th-century person.…

— John Ralston Saul

Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.

— Robert J. Sawyer

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

— Jon Weisman

A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work…

— Chaim Potok

I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.

— Anonymous

Writing is not a mystery. It is a craft like any other, and it can be learned.

— Robert Scholes

Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is…

— Arthur Phillips

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

— Ann Marie Aguilar

I grew up on British fiction, and I write perhaps more directly out of that tradition.

— Claire Messud