Fiction Quotes
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It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.
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Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, an ever-growing number of established non-fiction writers - Giles Milton, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Harry Sidebottom, Patrick Bishop, Ian Mortimer and myself included - have written historical novels.
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I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing poetry; I don't want to write fiction that's about the irresponsibility of writing fiction and I've thrown out a lot of writing that I think was ultimately tainted by that kind of self-awareness.
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The anger is useful too because when things about the world upset you, that is really a fertile feeling to channel into fiction and to put out into books.
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I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.
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There’s is no fiction surreal enough to capture our current reality.
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I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!
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It remains a mystery to me why some of that pulp fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social literary fiction which continues to be treated by literary editors as if it were somehow superior, or at least worthier of our attention. The careerist literary imperialism of the Bloomsbury years did a lot to produce fiction's present unseemly polarities.
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I wrote Baghdad Central right after translating a great work by Ibrahim al-Koni, who is sort of a master of Arab fiction. In conversations with him I realized that translations have been my MFA program. If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English. That's how I've figured it out.
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I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.
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Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.
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Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.
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I started writing nonfiction because nonfiction is well-suited to subjects that, if you wrote them as fiction, people would say, "I don't believe this. This is a little outlandish".
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There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have the power.
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Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.
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I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past.
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I'm a daydreamer - a purposeful one when I'm writing fiction.
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A poet's fiction should at least be plausible.
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People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.
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I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.
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I love science fiction stuff - I'm a bit of a dweeb like that.
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Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.
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Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.
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Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.
