Fiction Quote by Sheila Heti Download Open image “Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.” — Sheila Heti ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Good way Ifs Mind Way Writing Writing fiction
The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters. — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible! — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances! — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.” — Ann Marie Aguilar Copy Share Image
We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I believe there's a platonic ideal for every book that is written, like there's the perfect version of the book somewhere in the ether,… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I really enjoyed the process of 'Women in Clothes,' but there's no way I would have done that again. It felt more like being… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“style is about knowing what you like and why you like it, more than anything else. GRACE” — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I'd rather that people could be both entertained and given rest while reading my book than for someone to have to put the book… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“I know that character exists from the outside alone. I know that inside the body there's just temperature.” — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I don't think about the reader when I'm writing, but I do when I'm editing, of course. For instance, I self-consciously didn't want to… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“She had thought that when someone died, it would be like they went into a different room. She had not known that life itself… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
It's so weird how our existence hinges on just absolute crazy chance, but it feels so essential. It's like, 'Nothing would be here if… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
In 'Sweet Days of Discipline,' the narrator, years after graduating, fortuitously encounters her old friend Frederique at a movie theatre. Frederique invites her home. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Women without children can help mothers, and we can just be all in this together. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
