Attention Quote by Steven Amsterdam

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material…

— Terry Brooks

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

— Flannery O'Connor

There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.

— Zadie Smith

That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some…

— Alan Lightman

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have…

— Ethan Canin

I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels…

— David Brin

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes,…

— Jodi Picoult

“all writers, given adequate technique—technique that communicates—can stir our interest in their special subject matter, since at heart all fiction treats, directly or indirectly,…

— John Gardner

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.

— Anonymous

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle