Book Quote by Stephen King

Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad.

— Reif Larsen

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy…

— Walter Benjamin

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

— Etgar Keret

To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong…

— Ben Dolnick

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

Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.

— Suzanne Curchod

With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff.

— Wells Tower

“This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very much about…

— Stephen King

“Writer's block comes from the feeling that one is doing the wrong thing or doing the right thing badly. Fiction written for the wrong…

— John Gardner

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

— Alan Cheuse

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

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written…

— Edmund White