Good Fiction Writing Quotes
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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
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
It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.
— Jonathan Franzen
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
Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
Aristotle — Bruce Wayne Sullivan
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
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
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