About Quote by Samuel R. Delany

It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used to, mainly…

— Terry Pratchett

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

In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in…

— Dan Chaon

Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings…

— Eudora Welty

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

— Jonathan Evison

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but…

— Alice Munro

That's why I have to be a fiction writer, because I can't remember what just happened or where I went last week or what…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul. I do…

— Julia Glass

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

— Karen Russell

While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.

— Jane Gardam

You realize that especially when you're writing a book like this, looking back on your life, that there's just such a depth of understanding…

— Anna Quindlen

I feel no desire to write a novel that takes place in the past.

— Mohsin Hamid