Experience Quote by Monica Hesse

I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft.

— Kevin Barry

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

— Tom Rachman

When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these…

— Lily Rabe

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books are all…

— Scott Westerfeld

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.

— Emily Gould

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying…

— John Dalton

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

— Ivana Trump

Reading for writers is like training for athletes.

— Linda Sue Park

Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.

— Elliott Colla

The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be fiction or journalism, is that it is simultaneously the most intimate and the most anonymous of…

— Will Self

Fiction is my deepest love, but I love journalism, too. It keeps me thinking vigorously, and it reminds me that there is a world…

— Jennifer Egan