Quotes about Fiction Writer

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of. Votes: 3

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. Votes: 2

I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer. Votes: 2

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. Votes: 2

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic. Votes: 2

My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine. Votes: 2

As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view. Votes: 2

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer. Votes: 2

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling. Votes: 2

The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation. Votes: 2

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have. Votes: 2

I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom as a fiction writer. Nothing that happened holds any special tyranny over me. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper. Votes: 2

I was 12. Our, teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make things up, and that's when I thought maybe I was a writer, or at least a fiction writer. Votes: 2

I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife. Votes: 2

If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination. Votes: 2

George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody. Votes: 2

I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman writer' as anti-feminist. I wrote an essay about this as far back as 1977, at the height of the neo-feminist movement. Votes: 2

A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end. Votes: 2

Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in equal measure. I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself, and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing. Votes: 2

The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human. Votes: 2

No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, don't confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader. Votes: 2

One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also, a professional writer named Philip Klass taught there. He was a science fiction writer whose pseudonym was William Tenn. As a professional writer, he brought wisdom to teaching because he'd done it for a living. Votes: 2

Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer. Votes: 0

Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility. Votes: 0

What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence? Votes: 0

Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly. Votes: 0

Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy. Votes: 0

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer. Votes: 0

The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment. Votes: 0

I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction. Votes: 0

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified. Votes: 0

I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady. Votes: 0

For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom. Votes: 0

Murderer who lives in my building. His name is Dan Bevacqua. Hes a fiction writer. Votes: 0

A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear. Votes: 0

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see. Votes: 0

Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand. Votes: 0

A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic. Votes: 0

You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling. Votes: 0

I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer. Votes: 0

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. Votes: 0

A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories. Votes: 0

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction. Votes: 0

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life. Votes: 0

I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer. Votes: 0

If I couldn't be a fiction writer, I would be a roller coaster designer for theme parks Votes: 0

Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny. Votes: 0

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail. Votes: 0

Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making. Votes: 0

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. Votes: 0

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me. Votes: 0

It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer. Votes: 0

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. These are scientists who are making the future in their laboratories. Votes: 0

Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12. Votes: 0

In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity. Votes: 0

in my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore. Votes: 0

I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it was fiction. Votes: 0

I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy. Votes: 0

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck. Votes: 0

The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time. Votes: 0

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language. Votes: 0

Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around. Votes: 0

As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real. Votes: 0

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature. Votes: 0

The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself. Votes: 0

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work. Votes: 0

It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it. Votes: 0

As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics. Votes: 0

Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative writer. Votes: 0

There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made. Votes: 0

As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we pursue specificity. Votes: 0

my experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I find there. Votes: 0

Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own. Votes: 0

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people. Votes: 0

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing. Votes: 0

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one. Votes: 0

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do it. Votes: 0

Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It's never really easy to be successful as a writer when you're trying to write literary fiction. You've already limited your readership limited by that choice. Votes: 0

I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know. Votes: 0

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there. Votes: 0

Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as coming through his fiction. Votes: 0

I believe that I am some sort of fiction writer and I'm using myself in my work because I'm the person I'm most convenient to use! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer. Votes: 0

I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work of writing fiction. Votes: 0

They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction. Votes: 0

A writer's obligation is to invent: to go beyond what did happen and to look at what could have happened but didn't. Fiction writers are born liars. Votes: 0

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books. Votes: 0

For every reader and writer of steampunk fiction, there are probably hundreds or thousands of other activists who gleefully embrace some non-written manifestation of the steampunk ethos. Votes: 0

I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if you can feel it convincingly. Votes: 0

I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction are George Saunders and Alice Munro. Votes: 0

I'm tired of being considered a lesbian writer, tired of being a science-fiction writer, tired of being a thriller writer. I'm a writer. Period. Story matters to me. Votes: 0

For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it. Votes: 0

I wrote a lot of fiction, but it was just college stuff. It seems to me you have to be so confident in yourself to become a writer. Votes: 0

I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction. Votes: 0

Braxton Cosby's stories feel personal and well thought-out. I'm happy to welcome this entertaining writer to the YA science fiction field. I look forward to more of his work! Votes: 0

I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff. Votes: 0

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.' Votes: 0

Fiction and screenwriting blend for me. I feel like being a TV writer/screenwriter has definitely made my fiction writing better, although I have less time to do it. Votes: 0

That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control. Votes: 0

The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between the fantastic and the drab seems too narrow. Votes: 0

It's probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I ... want to open everybody's bureau drawers and see what they keep in there. I'm nosy. Votes: 0

When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions. Votes: 0

I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas. Votes: 0

I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you can sneak in something profound or symbolic, so much the better. Votes: 0

Granted, I'm more interested in technology than most people, and less interested in politics than most. But I don't like to think about categories. I really see myself as a general non-fiction writer. Votes: 0

The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal through the senses with abstractions. Votes: 0

I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet. Votes: 0

I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I couldn't figure out how you could be a novelist and make any money, which continues to be a problem for novelists the world over. Votes: 0

If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let the character talk. Don't censor, don't control. Listen, and write. Votes: 0

I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't. Votes: 0

When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers. Votes: 0