Failure Quote by Mary Augusta Ward

I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.

— Alexandra Fuller

Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction.

— Charles Bock

That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better in fiction.

— Marcy Dermansky

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or…

— Richard Russo

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting in a…

— David Grann

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

— Rose Wilder Lane

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

For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.

— Diana Trilling

At least I hope - that the fiction I've written so far has flaws but has mostly been successful.

— William T. Vollmann

Fiction was a massive, massive part of my formative years, far more so than television ever was, and I always hoped that my future…

— Steve Backshall