Books Quote by Melvyn Bragg

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

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

— Grace Paley

Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.

— Siri Hustvedt

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

I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything…

— Will Self

Over the years, I had something in principle against autobiographical writing altogether because memory plays tricks on us, and we also tend to reinvent…

— Gunter Grass

As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.

— Andrew Bacevich

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

— Stephen King

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

— Thomas Perry

In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. Married and…

— Eavan Boland

The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and I think…

— Jess Walter

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

— Danielle Trussoni