Feel Quote by Steven Berkoff

It's always difficult to write honestly of one's deepest feelings, particularly without the protective veil of fiction. But the more difficult, the more rewarding…

— Alix Kates Shulman

The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people.

— John Grisham

I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.

— Kate Grenville

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

— Roxane Gay

Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want to see…

— David Foster Wallace

Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

— Robert Boswell

Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much…

— Edwidge Danticat

I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.

— Joan Larkin

I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.

— Tom Stoppard

Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes.

— Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr

I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my…

— Jenny Offill