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

— Sheila Heti

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and…

— Ayana Mathis

That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better in fiction.

— Marcy Dermansky

“Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.”

— Ann Marie Aguilar

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

— Phil Klay

The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist…

— Octavia E. Butler

The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people.

— John Grisham

Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

— Etgar Keret

It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal of good…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Fiction is an improvement on life

— Charles Bukowski