Amazed Quote by Philip Roth

For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

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

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 for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes…

— Joan Didion

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.

— Cynthia Kadohata

I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.

— Alexandra Fuller

I always assumed I could never make a living out of literary fiction, and I was right. When I did try, it took four…

— Justin Cartwright

I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.

— Joan Larkin

Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.

— Deborah Eisenberg

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

I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot…

— Barbara Hamby