Changed Quote by Zadie Smith

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

— Thomas Perry

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

— Danielle Trussoni

The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

— Tea Obreht

As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.

— Andrew Bacevich

Though I later found a career as a journalist and an essayist, fiction is my first love and I never left it, even though…

— Andrew Lam

My passion for books has changed my life.

— Marley Dias

'Catcher in the Rye' changed my life when I was a kid. I read it as I was a boy turning into a man,…

— Paul Wesley

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 love fiction's ability to allow me to inhabit a wholly different life.

— Rumaan Alam

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

— Jill Lepore

I grew up on Jane Austen novels and was a massive literature fanatic when I was a kid - I read everything I could…

— Georgia King

Fiction was a massive, massive part of my formative years, far more so than television ever was, and I always hoped that my future…

— Steve Backshall