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Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry. — Peter Carey

The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers. — Sheri S. Tepper

Writers (of supernatural fiction), who used to strive for awe and achieve fear, now strive for fear and achieve only disgust. — David Aylward

Writers who have the vision and the ability to produce real fiction do not produce unreal fiction. — Raymond Chandler

Like most science-fiction writers, Trout knew almost nothing about science, was bored stiff by technical details. — Kurt Vonnegut

When the truth emerges, it can't be ignored. Nor will it wait. — Barbara Delinsky

That's what a poem is. Words which have a hidden meaning. A poem is like a secret. — Monique Roffey

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction. — John Connolly

Role playing is the definition of fiction writers — M Theresa Tseng

I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers. — Barry Eisler

Do what you love, especially if your sharing the word — Ann Simpson

Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. — Vanessa M Chattman

(M)ysteries in fiction are seldom as insoluble as those in life, as most writers can't resist the lure of omniscience. — Dennis McFadden

Writing fiction is fun. Writing non-fiction is life-changing. — A.D. Posey

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work. — Henry Rollins

Best seller material, and she didn't have to write a single word. — A.L. Mabry

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors. — Vernor Vinge

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children. — Eleanor Catton

Farm labor had stained his hands, but music stained his heart. — Brenda Sutton Rose

All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say. — Martin Amis

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real. — Sara Sheridan

Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work - and what to do when they break. — Barbara Delinsky

If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if your're writing fiction. — Shannon L. Alder

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have the power ... — Ethan Canin

Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us. — Shannon L. Alder

Two kinds of writers. One treats the world as if it were fiction; the other treats fiction as if it were the world. — Marty Rubin

My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries. — Diane Setterfield

Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living. — Janette Rallison

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity. — Peter Straub

Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways. — Shannon L. Alder

I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad. — Justin Cronin

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers. — Jacques Barzun

Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies. — Deana J. Driver

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. — Rudy Rucker

A great word becomes a great sentence with great meaning from great writers who have a great imagination and who enchant greatness — Mark Peter Evans

Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull. — Mal Peet

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form. — Irwin Shaw

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction. — Monica Johnson

I consider whoever my words land on to be my target, that's why I like flash fiction, it's a lot like using a shotgun. — Neil Leckman

I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design. — Malorie Blackman

Two excellent crime fiction writers I'm currently reading...

Laura Wilson and Andrew Taylor — Roger Boutwell

I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers. — Tahmoh Penikett

No amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing. — Mylo Carbia

You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills. — Lorrie Moore

Even when I'm writing about shape shifters and magical lands, I'm looking into my own heart. — Kay Kenyon

Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers. — Garry Disher

I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for a long time. — Sue Monk Kidd

To my fellow writers' I say, 'Write. Build an imaginary world like nobody's watching. — Terry A. O'Neal

Even the Sun shed tears once in a while — Sheeja Jose

Every woman feels. It just takes the right man to make things combust. — Barbara Delinsky

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out. — Jeanette Winterson

Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective. — Nnedi Okorafor

My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction. — Erica Jong

Love is the only emotion so unexplainable and unique, that not even the greatest of writers could hope to contain it within their meagre words. — Ross Turner

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems. — Virginia Woolf

[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it! — Terry Pratchett

If you work in The Dark, you MUST live in The Light. — Mylo Carbia

I don't want to write soft, easy fiction; I want to write fiction that challenges. — Brian A. McBride

There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.' — James Scott Bell

I'm in love. And I like how that feels. And I hate how that feels. Because love is an invention of fiction writers. — Ellen Hopkins

Good horror offers a sense of an upended, lawless world and that's appealing to anyone who grew up feeling like an outsider. — Christopher Rice

I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate. — Derrick Bell

Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do. — Eveli Acosta

I love storytelling when the writing spins through me like photons on their way to lighting the world. — Kay Kenyon

Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination. — Luke Taylor

Despite what your science fiction writers dream, we simply don't have the technology — Stephenie Meyer

In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction. — Josh Malerman

There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point. — Peter David

The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction. — William March

Not all fiction writers are evil, just the ones good at their job. After all, it's not a decent book if it can't make you cry. — Ellie Rose McKee

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers. — Francine Prose

Like most science-fiction writers, he knew almost nothing about science. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens. — Jodi Picoult

Too many writers of fiction don't give the reader enough credit. — Jonathan Evison

Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end? — Johnny Rich

The next time you need a piece of apparently obscure information, try asking a science fiction writer. You might be surprised. — Alastair Reynolds

One of the most subtle and powerful writers of dark fiction - a unique voice. — Michael Marshall Smith

What do writers look like? — Graham Spaid

One must not ask for sincere autobiographies from writers. Fiction was invented precisely to give men the possibility of expressing themselves freely. — Lev Shestov

The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more. — Sara Sheridan

When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot. — Cate Marvin

Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies — Bangambiki Habyarimana

In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in love with books. — Dan Chaon

All writers are manipulative liars.
Jack O. Savage, The Poet — Hunter S. Jones

Writers of historical fiction would be lost without libraries and archives. — Ruta Sepetys

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves. — Lauren Groff

Women's fiction doesn't sound like anything but a slur to my ears. — Sheila Heti

The woods are full of regional writers, and it is the great horror of every serious Southern writer that he will become one of them. — Flannery O'Connor

Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort. — Carla H. Krueger

A writer's obligation is to invent: to go beyond what did happen and to look at what could have happened but didn't. Fiction writers are born liars. — Tim O'Brien

People who don't read fiction are scared of what's inside their own heads. — Carla H. Krueger

Fiction writers can't be trusted. They make things up. — Dan Poynter

I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making stuff up! — Julia Glass

All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read. — Ann Marie Frohoff

I'm such a huge fan of fan fiction, to me it's a great way for readers to become writers. It's like putting the training wheels on for writing. — Hugh Howey

Confrontation is what happens when you are less than honest and you get caught. — Barbara Delinsky

Maybe these dreams of ours just floats away. Here we go again ... changin' face. — Randolph Randy Camp

Writing is something you Do and not discuss. Talk is cheap, wishes are free and a fool is included with every purchase. So spend your time wisely. — Jaime Reed

Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind. — Carla H. Krueger