Fiction Writer Quotes
What novelists say about inventing the truth.
These quotes come from novelists reflecting on their own craft, including one who admits the appeal of fiction is being able to veer away when the truth gets inconvenient. Readers who enjoy Good quotes about creative work will likely appreciate this set too.
Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short and robust answer is, 'Certainly not.'
I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.
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I wanted to be a writer, but I kind of wanted to be a fiction writer someday, like 20 - 25 years down the line. I never thought I'd write a nonfiction memoir about Iraq.
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The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.
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Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
I love historical fiction because there's a literal truth, and there's an emotional truth, and what the fiction writer tries to create is that emotional truth.
By the time I wrote my memoir, 'Men We Reaped,' I had been running from writing it for a long time. When the events in the book were happening, I knew I'd probably write about them one day. I didn't...
I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my own personality.
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Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this way - I had the same hopes that every literary fiction writer in America has: I wanted the novel to be well-received, critically....
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I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I don't think a fiction writer has anything over a journalist. It's all about the good word, properly inserted.
I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
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Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.
