Approach Quote by Phil Klay

As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.

— Stewart O'Nan

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

— Karen Russell

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

— Jonathan Evison

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

— Danielle Trussoni

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

— Wally Lamb

I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction.

— Joel Edgerton

People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not go far…

— Geoff Dyer

I love fiction's ability to allow me to inhabit a wholly different life.

— Rumaan Alam

Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a deep well…

— Keahu Kahuanui

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That…

— Janet Fitch

I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that…

— Heather O'Neill

My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find…

— Jennifer Gilmore