Luxury Quote by Torrey Peters

“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

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 think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my…

— Jenny Offill

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material…

— Terry Brooks

It's my experience that people don't think of fiction writing as being as intellectually serious as other kinds of writing in academia and so…

— Alexander Chee

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 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

I think what people really want is fiction that in some tiny way makes their life more meaningful and makes the world seem like…

— Wells Tower

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

Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

— Rose Wilder Lane

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

— Phil Klay

...The very word 'fiction' implies another world, literally a different place, whereas no one claims that a dedicated sportsman is escaping his life, or…

— Russell T Davies