Fiction Writers Quotes

Fiction Writers Quote of the day

When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.

There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.'

That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point.

Arnošt Lustig is one of the leading contemporary Czech fiction writers, and certainly the most important Jewish writer of Bohemia to have survived the Holocaust.

Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're not scientists. They're clueless.

I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.

New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God

You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.

I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.

I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.

I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.

I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures.

Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.

It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who is different.

Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.

In terms of writing, I think what most fiction writers treasure more than anything is the feeling that they're living for the length of a book inside another person.

Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You can write dialogue!

Many fiction writers who put the science in dont get it right.

It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious processes.

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.

Fiction writers can’t be trusted. They make things up.

My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say the same thing.

I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I’ll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.

I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism when we're making literature.

I'm in love. And I like how that feels. And I hate how that feels. Because love is an invention of fiction writers.

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

In The End, Humans Will Become Humans Own Worst Enemy.

Don't let your past dictate your future,

It feels like someone is gripping my heart and twisting it. It feels like I can't breathe. I shut my eyes tightly against the memory that is threatening to surface. I can't br

DON'T BE JEALOUS OF OTHERS - EVER. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY HAD TO DO TO GET TO WHERE THEY ARE.

You Don't Have To Be The Best Writer In The World To Become A Successful Author. However, You Do Need To Sell Lots of Books.

I know having a job can sometimes be very challenging, but not having one can be too.

They're Coming.

Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways.

To write a novel is to dream while awake, then express the dream to the reader in an absorbing way. The road leading from the writer's inner world to the readers' is paved with prose.

Good horror offers a sense of an upended, lawless world and that’s appealing to anyone who grew up feeling like an outsider.

I'm a writer. I write checks. Mostly fiction.

But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there’s no feeling lik

Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us.

Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely practice themselves.

Writing is a solitary business. It’s just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill.