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Writing Fiction Quotes

Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. I read less and less fiction these days, finding the buzz and the joy I used to get from fiction in ever stranger works of non-fiction, or poetry. Neil Gaiman
Buddy Ebsen quote: "Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long..."
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
Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you. Flannery O'Connor
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system. Flannery O'Connor
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up. Joan Didion
John Updike quote: "Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging..."
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. John Updike
Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get. David Foster Wallace
Mario Vargas Llosa quote: "writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely..."
writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible! Mario Vargas Llosa
Stephen King quote: "Writing fiction for money is a mug's game."
Writing fiction for money is a mug's game. Stephen King
Gore Vidal quote: "Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries..."
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. Gore Vidal
Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. Eudora Welty
Rose Wilder Lane quote: "Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to..."
Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. Rose Wilder Lane
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory seemed a kind of fiction, or vice versa. Either way, no matter how hard you try to put everything neatly into shape, the context wanders this way and that, until finally the context isn't even there anymore. You're left with this pile of kittens lolling all over one another. Warm with life, hopelessly unstable. And then to put these things out as saleable... Haruki Murakami
I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't. Philip Roth
When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written. William Gibson

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