Fiction Quote by Martin Amis

Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are…

— Terry Brooks

“You abandon most readily those works that have no destination other than your own wishes; there is no editor or producer standing there waiting…

— William Saroyan

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

— Alan Cheuse

I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own.

— Ned Beauman

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

— Richard Russo

“The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.”

— Tom Wiseman

Every fiction writer writes around the thing they will never say. Thats what fiction writers do

— Anonymous

For writers, so much is done in isolation. It can be easy to feel detached, or to get a little lost along the way.

— Brad Listi

I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close…

— J. G. Ballard

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a…

— Steve Almond

However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that…

— Wally Lamb

Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.

— Elizabeth Janeway