Because i can Quote by Roxane Gay

I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.

— Kate Grenville

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do…

— Sufjan Stevens

I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.

— Judy Blume

Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in equal measure.…

— Roxane Gay

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

I love fiction and read novels constantly.

— Michael Imperioli

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

— Leonard Mlodinow

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

— Wally Lamb

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

— Joan Larkin

I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.

— Michael Morpurgo

I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.

— Tom Stoppard

The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don't…

— Jim Woodring