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It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer. — John Grisham

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things. — Janis Ian

Good science fiction has its roots in good science. — Dan Brown

You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed. — Kurt Vonnegut

Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction. — Kelly Link

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately. — John C. Hawkes

Good fiction is life with all the boring bits taken out, not with all the hardship taken out. — Caro Clarke

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam. — Frederik Pohl

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth. — Criss Jami

In a good play, everyone is in the right. — Christian Friedrich Hebbel

Action is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no consequence to the character, the story loses heart. — Linda W. Yezak

On writing: I don't like doing this, but it feels so good when I stop. — Richard Ford

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction. — Jonathan Franzen

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

Good fiction is trawling back into the past and digging up the real characters who've influenced your entire being. — Ken Scott

Good fiction makes the truth believable. — Tarrant Smith

As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty. — Stephen King

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
Aristotle — Bruce Wayne Sullivan

You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent. — Philip Roth

If I can keep writing just one good page a day, I will have 15 published novels in my expected lifetime. Tick, tick, tick... — Barry James Hickey

A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader. — W.J. Raymond

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

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth. — Diane Setterfield

The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people. — John Grisham

So much of what we read nowadays is there one moment and gone the next. When you read something good, cherish it. — Carla H. Krueger

The best lie is the one that has an element of truth, so it's good to include something real in your fiction. — Renee Conoulty

Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority. — Emily Gould

I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.' — Sara Shepard

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten. — Phyllis A. Whitney

Good fiction creates its own reality. — Nora Roberts

I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary. — Sara Sheridan

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

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