Fiction Quote by William T. Vollmann

I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't…

— Jennifer Egan

The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.

— Valerie Plame

Over the years, I have come to realize that no matter how satisfying fiction is, it becomes that much better when it actually happened.

— Elin Hilderbrand

I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.

— Gary Shteyngart

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or…

— Richard Russo

I don't think writing fiction has changed my worldview.

— Donald Ray Pollock

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written…

— Edmund White

I'm not a fan of fiction that's totally hopeless.

— Jeff Vandermeer

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

— Mary Augusta Ward

Fiction always reveals a lot about the person who is writing it. That's the scary thing. Not in a straightforward autobiographical sense. But the…

— Katie Kitamura

It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal of good…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

— Alice Hoffman