Change things Quote by Marge Piercy

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

— Stephen King

I don't think writing fiction has changed my worldview.

— Donald Ray Pollock

Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s end….Then, again,…

— Anonymous

If fiction changes things, it's usually because it's a powerful way of exploring social issues. And it helps us to understand people who are…

— Gillian Cross

How long do we live in the fictions of our past? And how do we convince anyone that who we write is not necessarily…

— Jill Talbot

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify…

— Jorge Luis Borges

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

— Ernest Gaines

I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't…

— Jennifer Egan

Changing the story doesn't alter the past. Our past makes us who we are but how we deal with it shows the metal we're…

— Rosa-Lee Beckwith-Powell

“We all write fiction when we write about the past.”

— Stephen King

If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives

— Thomas King

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

— Jorge Luis Borges