Fiction Quote by Sufjan Stevens

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

— Joan Larkin

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

— Alexander McCall Smith

I've always wanted to be a novelist, so I just try to write really great narrative.

— Peter Heller

Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting in a…

— David Grann

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

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard…

— Hooman Majd

I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I couldn't figure out how you could be a novelist and make any money, which…

— Anna Quindlen

Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes…

— Neil Gaiman

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

Being a fiction writer is really like being an actor, because if you're going to write convincingly it has to sound right and play…

— Ridley Pearson

No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.

— Sylvia Brownrigg

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes…

— Joan Didion