Failure Quote by Mary Augusta Ward

In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre…

— Calvin Trillin

I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing poetry; I…

— Ben Lerner

I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes it up.…

— Edwidge Danticat

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing,…

— Kate Atkinson

“Write non-fiction like fiction, so the reader is constantly turning the page to find out what happens next, and write fiction like non-fiction, so…

— Jeffrey Robinson

I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.

— Sloane Crosley

At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a lot of…

— William T. Vollmann

Whether I'll get the chance to write fiction, I don't know. I could do political conspiracy thrillers, couldn't I? With an investigative journalist as…

— Heather Brooke

“When pondering who I am, I write the fiction that I want directly over the facts that I hate. However, what I’ve discovered is…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

So much of what I write in fiction is based on true stories.

— Mark Kurlansky

For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my initial attraction…

— David Grann

Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or…

— George R. R. Martin