Fiction Writing Quotes

The last image I registered was Ethan and my hand – linked, bound and unbreakable.

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.

I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the veil, that I might touch someone and make them feel something…or something.

I love my career. It is a career. A difficult one that takes many hours and total dedication to my craft. It is also what I was born to do--tell stories and entertain.

Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination.

Ah, ya, omong-omong, aku sangat merindukanmu. Apa kau merindukanku juga, mmm?

Entah mengapa, mendadak dia merasa bahwa berkenalan dengan si pemilik nama itu sepertinya akan menyenangkan.

Sometimes a night of over-eating leaves you hungry for something you can't name. An emptiness haunted me. An emptiness I didn't have a name for until I met Jeb. Now, I' m starving.

Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies

Misunderstandings arise only in undefined relationships

Family is a permanent adhesive that creates a lifetime bond.

To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor.

Reading is fuel for the brain. Writing is fuel for the spirit...

Action is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no consequence to the character, the story loses heart.

Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.

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

My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and monsters but I love it, telling stories is what I was born to do.

Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway.Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth at the time of the writing, wouldn't it?

Commercial fiction writing – where my bread is buttered – is fairly straightforward. The writing is simply efficiency and story. The more you have of one the less you need of the other.

Without a doubt the two best words in the English language are The End

Backstory is like a flavour you can’t quite pick, lurking in the layers of a curry. You know it’s there and it enhances the flavour, but it’s intangible and fleeting. Use it sparingly!

Every book contains a secret – even the writer doesn't always know what it is.

Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..

There were no absolutes in fiction, no certain way to deliver what was needed. So it was no surprise most technical writers considered novel-writing a gateway to madness.

Fantasy or fiction is just a persons secret life. A world they want to be in. The only diffrence between them and you, is that they wrote it down in detail, printed it and shared it with the world.

Expand your world. (Stories about wizards and spells) are very frequently about power relationships...

A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them...

Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love.

To my fellow writers' I say, 'Write. Build an imaginary world like nobody's watching.

Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies.

If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if your're writing fiction.

The Fiction defense. Sometimes I just need to use it.

For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.

Write it down and it will come alive.

The only man she ever loved. And hated.

Do what you love, especially if your sharing the word

A shrink and a patient switching places. Who is REALLY the boss?

A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.

I enjoy writing historical fiction because it allows me to live more lives than just this one.

It is not lack of ability, but lack of motivation, lack of focus, and lack of self-confidence that prevents most aspiring authors from finishing what they started.

This whole show vs tell concept both bewilders and challenges my mind.

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.” – Associated Press interview, 12-7-11

Writing is the new reading

Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving toward the watcher on the shore.

Science Fiction has always attracted more talented writers than it could reward adequately.

Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand.

Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made by your own hand.

Writing is like running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand.

I’ve never pondered my own life until I started watching fictional ones fight for theirs.

I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren't any.