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Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know…

— Hunter S. Thompson

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

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you…

— Megan McCafferty

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

— Sheila Heti

I know how to write fiction well.

— Akhil Sharma

A writer can't just be well-educated or good at research; to build a living, breathing world with interesting characters, you have to write from…

— Lynn Flewelling

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.

— Wally Lamb

You learn a lot, writing fiction.

— Penelope Lively

In a democracy in the 20th and 21st century, if you can't base your fiction upon ordinary people and the issues that engage them,…

— John Updike

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people…

— Nick Earls

You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.

— Norman Mailer

One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting truths lie.

— Francine du Plessix Gray