Fiction Quote by Taiye Selasi

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

— James Merrill

I had originally been looking at writing, including fiction.

— Ben Rhodes

I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything…

— Will Self

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

— Lena Dunham

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

— William Nicholson

I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking…

— Israel Horovitz

I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in my life when I could have been inventing people…

— George Bernard Shaw

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do…

— Sufjan Stevens

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,

— Alice Munro

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays

— Beth Henley

I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.

— Judy Blume