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The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track.
— Bret Easton Ellis
I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.
— Susan Orlean
You need to take some acting classes to learn to hide your huge crush on my husband better
— Mary Papas
Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head.
— Robert Harris
Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.
— Buddy Ebsen
All around us is a nothing that stretches on for infinity. We humans can barely comprehend that. If we comprehend it we are rarely pleased.
— F.K. Preston
I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction.
— Tom Robbins
The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.
— Ian McEwan
I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.
— Wilkie Collins
Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies.
— Michael Bassey 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
Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot.
— Dennis R. Miller
I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.
— Andre Dubus
I seek to take my audience on an emotional roller-coaster ride, a journey of laughter and tears and every sentiment in between.
— Marc Royston
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
— Khaled Hosseini
One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
— Michael Cunningham
Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.
— Deana J. Driver
That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
— Tim O'Brien
I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
— Hallie Ephron
She said that her job as a writer of fiction was to report on the human condition, to tel us who we are and what we think and what we do.
— Elizabeth Strout
I honestly believe that everything I know about the writing of non-fiction (or writing) could be engraved on the head of a pin with a garden hoe ...
— M.F.K. Fisher
I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I'm doing fiction.
— Gore Vidal
There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.
— Neil Gaiman
Putting a piece of you in your protagonist adds depth and merges the worlds of fiction and reality.
— Adam Steven Page
Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns.
— Kurt Vonnegut
On the blank page all things are possible.
— Marty Rubin
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
I can be a woman on a mission. But I'll choose what mission that is. And that my friend is where youll see the results.
— Kia Carrington-Russell
You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.
— Joss Whedon
The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.
— Stephen King
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos ... to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.
— John Cheever
When I'm writing, really writing, everything but breathing is an ignorable distraction.
— Dennis R. Miller
I love storytelling when the writing spins through me like photons on their way to lighting the world.
— Kay Kenyon
Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do.
— Eveli Acosta
Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don't fall.
— Henry Mosquera
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
A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.
— Phyllis A. Whitney
Truth? How can you get truth out of fiction?"
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The story is the story is the story.
— Heather O'Brien
As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics.
— Kathleen Rooney
Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.
— John Updike
Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction:
Simply to participate. — Alan Moore
Simply to participate. — Alan Moore
A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
— Diane Setterfield
Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan.
— Brook Tesla
All fiction is based on fact and moves into fantasy. It is the writer's task to make the unbelievable believable.
— Chloe Thurlow