Fiction Quote by Teri Louise Kelly

“I am not ultimately interested in writing fiction. I can't make things up. Or rather, I can only make things up about things that…

— Alison Bechdel

“Unfortunately, the story wasn’t a novel, and it wasn’t fiction.”

— Aleatha Romig

“The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction.”

— Donald Miller

“I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once…

— John Hawkes

“Unable to explore setting, conflict, characters or themes in their fiction, the mainstreamers wrote more and more eloquently about nothing at all.”

— Dave Wolverton

“That's the thing about writers -on one hand evrything is sacred to them, but, on the other, nothing really is.”

— Lang Leav

“Fiction is nothing but non-fiction couched to conceal the identity of the writer.”

— Tapan Ghosh

“I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's…

— Flannery O'Connor

“But I’m not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out for us.…

— Anthony Horowitz

“I consider all things a work of fiction, even myself.”

— Nancy B. Brewer

“In my life I haven’t done anything worth writing about, but that’s OK. That’s why I write fiction.”

— Jarod Kintz