Fiction Quote by Peter Heller

I spent an awful lot of time with Hemingway. And Hemingway had a remarkable ability to reach very noble goals through sometimes ignoble means.

— Lesley M. M. Blume

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

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

— Mary Augusta Ward

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

I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of two apartments…

— Sloane Crosley