Essentials Quote by Manuel Puig

Novelists should be free to write whatever they want, to let their imaginations roam as close to or as removed from reality as they…

— Sarah Weinman

Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.

— Salman Rushdie

The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction.

— Philip Roth

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.

— Richard Flanagan

The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.

— Cynthia Ozick

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing.

— Janet Fitch

As a writer, you are free.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.

— James Kelman

That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some…

— Alan Lightman

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.

— Beth Moore

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people…

— Nick Earls