Discourse Quote by Susan Sontag

The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.

— James Kelman

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

— Katharine Weber

Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue? You have…

— Paul Beatty

There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately…

— J. M. Coetzee

The key thing for an intellectually rigorous writer to come to grips with is the marginalization of literature by more technologically sophisticated and thus…

— David Shields

Inspiration is everywhere - film, television, newspapers, novels, overheard conversations, whatever you can tap into. It's out there, and I've been at this long…

— Kasey Anderson

In fiction, conceptualizing, I've found, produces dull and over-controlled text.

— George Saunders

My fiction is based on both my own experience transformed, altered, juggled and changed to suit the demands of composition, character, and plot. If…

— Clarence Major

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people…

— Nick Earls

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

— Anthony Burgess

“When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something to be…

— Carl Henegan

Inspiration comes from the act of writing.

— Steve Doll