Experimentation Quote by Peter Orner

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

What you create when you're teaching fiction writing is a kind of literary salon, not a social club or a mutual admiration society, not…

— John Dufresne

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

The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people.

— John Grisham

Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

— Rose Wilder Lane

If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so…

— Elliott Colla

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in…

— Janet Fitch

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

— Phil Klay

As a young kid I assumed that everybody was sort of on the same wavelength as I was and then I found out in…

— George Saunders

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

— Sheila Heti

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr

I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story,…

— Emily Susan Rapp