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I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my…

— Jenny Offill

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

— Theodore Sturgeon

Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are…

— Terry Brooks

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is…

— Gillian Cross

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

— Paul Auster

All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's…

— Paul Auster

I didn't study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.

— Dale Peck

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.

— Orson Scott Card

Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of…

— Varley O'Connor

I should say, I don't write about myself or my life. So for me, in fiction, it's always been about what I can dream…

— Jennifer Egan

Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue? You have…

— Paul Beatty