Writing Fiction Quotes
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Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.
— James Van Pelt
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
— Jonathan Franzen
Truth is always duller than fiction.
— Piers Paul Read
Write it down and it will come alive.
— Efrat Israeli
I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.
— Matthew Specktor
Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.
— Rose Wilder Lane
Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously. — Carrie Fisher
I like writing historical fiction.
— Philippa Gregory
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
I'd like to write fiction. Perhaps at some stage.
— John Gimlette
There's a satisfaction I get from writing fiction that I will never get from screenwriting.
— Jonathan Tropper
Reshuffllng of thoughts - facilitates a refreshed perspective to a mental deadlock!
— Deeba Salim Irfan
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
I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.
— Kathy Reichs
The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
— Criss Jami
How do I know what I think until I see what I say?
— E. M. Forster
Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time.
— Simon Mawer
Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love.
— Stephanie Roberts
I know have lived, so many times, that the only thing I have left to remember is my writing, cause every single moment in life it's already written.
— Piroska Rodriguez
In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction.
— Josh Malerman
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
— H.P. Lovecraft
I knew that it was impossible for us to be kept apart for too long.
— Erica Sehyun Song
Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don't fall.
— Henry Mosquera
Violence can read like poetry. You just have to describe the act as if you're in love with the way your characters bleed.
— F.K. Preston
Was the dividing line between life and fiction as hazy for other people as it was for a writer?
— Dean Koontz
I like going back and writing fiction.
— Julia Sweeney
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
History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.
— Guy Vanderhaeghe
When I'm writing, really writing, everything but breathing is an ignorable distraction.
— Dennis R. Miller
A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
— John Irving
Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do.
— Eveli Acosta
The only man she ever loved. And hated.
— Mary Papas
I've always thought that science and fiction writing have a lot in common because they're both about modeling reality.
— Scott Westerfeld
Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.
— Sara Sheridan
Writing fiction isn't about lying through your teeth, but more like, fibbing with a little class.
— Anthony Mays
I love storytelling when the writing spins through me like photons on their way to lighting the world.
— Kay Kenyon
Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.
— Etgar Keret
Writing fiction for money is a mug's game.
— Stephen King
I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.
— Sara Sheridan
Good fiction creates its own reality.
— Nora Roberts
Ultimately, nobody is predictable, least of all to himself ... there wouldn't be any point in writing fiction otherwise.
— Jincy Willett
Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?
— Johnny Rich
Sometimes in fiction you had to mute reality in order to make it seem more believable.
— Adam Langer
We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.
— Kathryn Joyce
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
In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.
— Miriam Toews
Writing historical fiction is a legitimate use of Multiple Personality disorder.
— Peggy Ullman Bell
If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.
— Salman Rushdie
Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.
— Sandra Cisneros
A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them ...
— William Petersen
Writing to her from America, her best friend remarked, 'I've stopped reading fiction, I just read about you.
— Catherine Bailey
My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability to lie with a straight face as a child.
— Ashwin Sanghi
The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.
— Sara Sheridan
If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.
— Brett Armstrong
Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.
— T.K. Naliaka
For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time.
— Romesh Gunesekera
All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it.
— Walter Dean Myers
You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.
— Joss Whedon
It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
— Robert Hass
The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.
— Stephen King
It's neither and it's both. That's the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist's intention.
— Ted Dekker
Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost!
— Henry James
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
If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.
— Lawrence Block
I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.
— Edwidge Danticat
I long for the day I no longer long for him.
— Franki Fiori
Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.
— Siri Hustvedt
Your afraid the sly little things will steal your heart if the find out you have one- Natalie Savage Carlson " The Family Under The Bridge — Natalie Savage Carlson
The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.
— Paul Di Filippo
Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes.
— Alexander McCall Smith
