Fiction Quote by Sefi Atta

Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.

— Emily Gould

It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.

— Leigh Newman

I usually dread writing non-fiction. I don't feel comfortable or confident writing essays and the like.

— Paul G. Tremblay

I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story,…

— Emily Susan Rapp

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

— Mohsin Hamid

Writing fiction is very different to writing non-fiction. I love writing novels, but on history books, like my biographies of Stalin or Catherine the…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or…

— Bret Easton Ellis

I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else.

— Elizabeth Berg

I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting.

— Andrew Lam

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.

— Jess Walter

Writing is more important than being a writer.

— Jesse Andrews

Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The…

— Ashwin Sanghi