Art Quote by Vito Acconci

For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my initial attraction…

— David Grann

The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I dive in…

— Dave Barry

A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

— E. L. Doctorow

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

— Kate Morton

I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot…

— Barbara Hamby

I really am enjoying writing more than ever. I feel like I'm so much more focused than I was in the early times.

— Debbie Harry

Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.

— Tobias Wolff

When I was painting, I was painting stories I was telling myself. When I look back at it, moving to writing was a very…

— Janet Evanovich

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

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard…

— Hooman Majd

I write largely plot-driven stories.

— Ravi Subramanian