Beast Quote by Terry Brooks

The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and…

— Whitley Strieber

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes,…

— Jodi Picoult

I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for…

— Junot Diaz

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

— Phil Klay

Fiction is a place where people can meet, where they take the time to very seriously examine and think about the experiences of other…

— Phil Klay

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.

— Wally Lamb

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconcile, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

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

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and…

— Ayana Mathis

The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it…

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Anthony Doerr