Quotes of: Fiction-writers Keyword

Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. They don't want to g...

James A. Michener

A writer is someone who analyses the society, people and the world around him or her. Simply a writer is someone who pays attention to the utmost simple things happening around him or her. I believe the best things about being a writer is, you are go...

Ama H.Vanniarachchy

I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will le...

William Faulkner

The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

Tea Obreht

There is no truth, only science and fiction.

Steven Brewis

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Mark Twain

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.

Marco Tempest

Real life is crazier than fiction.

Lauren Bowles

Nobody's life is as romantic as it is in fiction.

Ruth Glick

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Robert Stone

For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.

Marian Keyes

The truth is that good fantasies carefully limit the magic that's possible. In fact, the magic has to be defined, at least in the author's mind, as a whole new set of natural laws that cannot be violated during the course of the story. That is, if at...

How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy

Peace is found with honesty among wicked men.

Confessions of a Self-Help Writer: The Journal of Michael Enzo

Art is long and life is short.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

The gay revolution began as a literary revolution.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Fights don't solve matters, they just make things worse. (Diary 19)

The Freedom Writers Diary

The great writer evokes the words that buried within hearts of readers.

Master of Stupidity

The important thing for any writer to remember is to take the writing seriously, but not the writer.

Somewhere West of Roads

Writers, even unpublished writers, have a tendency not to notice what’s going on around them when they are the center of attention.

Ticket To Hollywood

A self without a shelf remains cryptic; a home without books naked.

Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books

If God inspires your writing, others will know because it will inspire them when they read it.

Unleash the Writer Within