Fiction Quote by Wally Lamb

“A great writer weaves words like a painter mixes colors.”

— James D. Maxon

I was listening to this interview with fiction writer George Saunders the other day, and he said something about how the role of a…

— John K. Samson

I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story…

— Ramez Naam

I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the answer." It's…

— Mohsin Hamid

The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That was always…

— Cate Marvin

The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.

— Marlon James

“Bill is a fiction writer, but he writes in the first-person voice in a style that is tell-all confessional; in fact, his fiction sounds…

— John Irving

The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses,…

— Flannery O'Connor

An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.

— Jen Knox

And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team put together…

— Tim LaHaye

“I'm a fiction writer not by choice, but by necessity. It's the only way I can say what I want without having to admit…

— Jack Tate

By the time I wrote my memoir, 'Men We Reaped,' I had been running from writing it for a long time. When the events…

— Jesmyn Ward

By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His…

— Wallace Stegner

“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.”

— Flannery O'Connor

My only obligation as a fiction writer is to the story, to make it good, so good the busy reader doesn't feel that flipping…

— Leslie Pietrzyk