Done Quote by Marcy Dermansky

With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff.

— Wells Tower

The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people.

— John Grisham

Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

— Rose Wilder Lane

I always say writing fiction isn't something you teach. It's something you do, and only experimentation - i.e. doing it, either badly or good…

— Peter Orner

Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.

— Emily Gould

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

— Sheila Heti

It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.

— Leigh Newman

Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or…

— Bret Easton Ellis

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

— Ivana Trump

The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.

— Valerie Plame

I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else.

— Elizabeth Berg

When you write fiction, you're like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It's funny how things come…

— J. Courtney Sullivan