Fiction Quote by Paul Beatty

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.

— Wally Lamb

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and…

— Neil Gaiman

When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some order, and…

— Alice McDermott

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

— Elliott Colla

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do…

— Sufjan Stevens

My job, in general, is nonfiction, so writing fiction was liberating. If you can't find the answer to something, you just make it up!

— Jake Tapper

Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want to see…

— David Foster Wallace

Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes.

— Alexander McCall Smith

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

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

To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong…

— Ben Dolnick

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