Fiction Quote by Radclyffe Hall

I have a general feeling that writers and artists who are in this peculiar situation, of being a persecuted artist, all anyone ever asks…

— Salman Rushdie

I've personally been on the outside sometimes. But I was - I personally was never persecuted especially in the way in which sharing my…

— Mahershala Ali

I don't know any writer of fiction who enjoys trying to point out or dissect whatever they produced with strangers and let them go…

— Noah Baumbach

I am one of those authors who consider it their highest honour and their highest liberty to have a completely untrammelled chance of using…

— Mikhail Sholokhov

I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place…

— Etgar Keret

People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.

— Shmuel Yosef Agnon

The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and…

— Taiye Selasi

I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place…

— Etgar Keret

I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there…

— Chinua Achebe

I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.

— Jean Giono

You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.

— Alice Mattison

“How well I would write if I were not here! If between the white page and the writing of words and stories that take…

— Italo Calvino