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Fiction Quotes

I never thought I could write fiction.

Jonathan Galassi

Thought Never Write Fiction Could

My job, in general, is nonfiction, so writing fiction was liberating. If you can't find the answer to something, you just make it up!

Job Writing You Find Up Fiction

As a writer of fiction, lying is the central thing to all books.

Lying Fiction Books Writer Central

After writing several chapter books, I found my true passion: historical fiction.

Passion Writing Chapter True Fiction

I will literally read anything, regardless of genre, fiction or non-fiction, as long as it's well written.

Long Will Fiction Anything Well

The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Truth Best Truth Is Fiction Where

With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on.

You Crime Write Fiction Catch

I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film.

Myself Reading Think Movies Fiction

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

Women Violence Crime Fiction Painful

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

Great People Writing Enjoy Fiction

One futuristic novel that had a huge impact on me was Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein,' which is kind of science fiction plus Gothic.

Science Me Impact Kind Fiction

Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

Myself Writing You Write Fiction

One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.

Deborah Eisenberg

People Amazing Writing You Fiction

Inevitably, most readers come to John Cheever's 'Journals' via his fiction. Whatever value they might have in their own right, their viability as a publishing proposition was conditional on the interest of the large readership of his novels and stories.

Value Right Whatever Fiction Own

Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.

Tell Fiction Location Exist Because

I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.

Fiction Memoir Novel Wrote

Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Life Need Real Fiction Successful

I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et cetera. Now I've decided that reading fiction that features characters who are in those professions will do.

Reading Now Will Always Fiction Who

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

Crime Conservative Fiction Element

I hate science fiction.

Science Hate Science Fiction Fiction

'The Expats' is a thriller, but one that tends more toward general fiction than toward breathless pulp.

More Fiction General Than Breathless

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Red Writing Black Facts Fiction Ink

Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.

Sometimes Try Fiction Read Many Too

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.

Gloria Vanderbilt

Work Mind Dream Way Same Fiction

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