Writing Fiction Quotes (page 2)

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• kiss
• die
• waste

The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money. Chuck Palahniuk

• greed
• responsibility
• writing

They know a million tricks, those novelists. Take Doctor Goebbels; that's how he started out, writing fiction. Appeals to the base lusts that hide in everyone no matter how respectable on the surface. Yes, the novelist knows humanity, how worthless they are, ruled by their testicles, swayed by cowardice, selling out every cause because of their greed - all he's got to do is thump on the drum, and there's his response. And he's laughing, of course, behind his hand at the effect he gets. Philip K. Dick

• beauty
• true
• good

[I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true. ... It is the writer's duty to hate injustice, to defy the powerful, and to speak for the voiceless. To be ... the severest critics of our own societies. Edward Abbey

• art
• writing
• sailing

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship Kinky Friedman

• time
• writing
• understanding

I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for a long time. Sue Monk Kidd

• teacher
• school
• writing

I'm certified as an instructor and I do teach courses at a cram school, but I'm not exactly a teacher. I write fiction, but I've never been published, so I'm not a writer yet, either." "You're nothing." Tengo nodded. "Exactly. For the moment, I'm nothing. Haruki Murakami

• money
• writing
• she

All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point? a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf

• lies
• writing
• lied

I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth."Homer Simpson Matt Groening

• him
• writing
• saying

I told him that the lawyers were always saying 'You can't say that you'll get sued.' He said to me, 'Write fiction Michael, you can tell the truth.' (Kirk Douglas to Michael Caine) Michael Caine

• writing
• fiction
• fiction writing

I like going back and writing fiction. Julia Sweeney

• reflection
• life
• people

I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to. Helen Fielding

• exam
• writing
• growing up

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did. Roddy Doyle

• work
• writing
• job

I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore. Don DeLillo

• writing
• free
• imagination

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free. Manuel Puig

• writing
• ambition
• full-time

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. Peter Straub