Quotes of: Fiction-writers Keyword

Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world...

Virginia Alison

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.

Brian Aldiss

There is no fact that is not at least part fiction.

Marty Rubin

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

Carol Alt

I like going back and writing fiction.

Julia Sweeney

It's 1am, I have fiction to write!

C.S. Woolley

Whenever people ask me, "How are your books doing?" or, "How is your book doing?" I just say, "It's okay." I mean, what am I supposed to say? I'm a writer; that means I write because I need to write, because that's how I breathe and that's how I blee...

C. JoyBell C.

We've inherited many ideas about writing that emerged in the eighteenth century, especially an interest in literature as both an expression and an exploration of the self. This development — part of what distinguishes the "modern" from the "early mo...

Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?

(W.D.) Howells asserted that the Americans' 'love of the supernatural is their common inheritance from no particular ancestry.' Their fiction, he added, often gathers in the gray 'twilight of the reason,' on 'the borderland between experience and ill...

The Haunted Dusk

It’s good to ask questions that make people uncomfortable.

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

A career in the arts can make anyone crazy.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Death is almost never timely, even for the old.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

God pity the poor novelist.

Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright

The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined to break down genre barriers. He's done amazing things.

George R. R. Martin

Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty.

500 Ways to Be a Better Writer

I sometimes think my head is so large because it is so full of dreams.

How To Write Mysteries: A Writer's Notebook

My cat is an ungrateful brat. -Nellie McKay

It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure

Exercise the muscles that compassionately open the heart. In your writing and your life.

The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life

She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him.

One Writer's Beginnings

One would think a writer would be happy here -- if a writer is every happy anywhere.

The Long Goodbye

Writer’s block, I just drove around it four times. All my favorite writers live there.

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