Disguise Quote by Zadie Smith

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is…

— Gillian Cross

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

People resist and fight against things that are new that they haven't seen before, especially if they make them uncomfortable. But fiction is a…

— Gail Simone

I certainly wouldn't feel safe telling people I was writer.

— Sophie Dahl

I'm not one of those people that has to share personal experiences. That's not really the kind of writer I am. I'm a very…

— Joe Bonamassa

If I have experienced something in my life, it's probably going to be written about, and I don't particularly care if the person I'm…

— Finneas

A lot of things that I write about have happened to people around me, if not necessarily to me or in the organizations I've…

— Ravi Subramanian

If somebody gave you several thousand dollars and nothin' to do but write, would you be a writer then? Would you tell your stories,…

— Dorothy Allison

I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the…

— Shannon Hale

I never set out to write literature; I set out to tell stories. And some of my work may be very raunchy and very…

— Wilbur Smith

If you happen to capture my imagination for some reason and I decide to write about you and you don't like what I wrote…

— Truman Capote

I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner.

— Helena Christensen