Art Quote by Rick Bass

I've lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once 'created,' or produced, the art of fiction.

— Rick Bass

Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep way, I…

— Kate Christensen

I feel a terrible loss when I (eventually must) complete a work of fiction.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I was in love with the idea of love, so I created elaborate fictions for my relationships - fictions that allowed me to believe…

— Roxane Gay

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

As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.

— Andrew Bacevich

With fiction, I felt like I could bring to bear my full imagination, my entire heart, and so you feel very vulnerable. It's not…

— Peter Heller

I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

— Karl Ove Knausgard

I stopped writing fiction the moment I started writing songs, and I miss it.

— Jake Shears

I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went…

— Tom Robbins

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

— Joan Larkin

I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction.

— George Murray