Fiction Quote by Peter Heller

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Thomas Perry

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

— Grace Paley

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

— Christopher McQuarrie

“We all write fiction when we write about the past.”

— Stephen King

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.

— Amy Waldman

The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.

— Malcolm Gladwell

“I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.”

— Tiffany Madison

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

— Taiye Selasi

I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book.

— Cassandra Clare

I had originally been looking at writing, including fiction.

— Ben Rhodes