Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
Albert Camus
Winston Churchill
John Locke
Vincent Van Gogh
Robert Louis Stevenson
Rose Kennedy
All authors
Today's birthdays
1850 - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
1885 - Will Durant
1988 - Virat Kohli
1971 - Corin Nemec
1913 - Vivien Leigh
1926 - John Berger
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Activist
Astronaut
Clergyman
Mathematician
Celebrity
Cartoonist
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Quote Topics
Fiction Writing Quotes
Fiction Writing Quotes
I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.
Eleanor Catton
Creative
Writing
Problems
Think
Ways
Solve
About
Trying
Fiction
Fiction Writing
Creative Ways
Actually
Medicine is a supremely useful profession. Fiction writing is not.
Ethan Canin
Writing
Medicine
Supremely
Fiction
Fiction Writing
Useful
Profession
From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.
Garry Disher
Creative
Writing
Action
Setting
Vital
Take
Writers
Simply
New
Know
Years
Fiction
Fiction Writing
Place
Granted
Teaching
Creative Writing
Serious
Element
Deserves
Set
Treatment
This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing.
Hooman Majd
Writing
College
Living
Some
More
Point
Write
Writer
Like
Make
Cliche
Always
Sounds
Very
Quickly
Did
Fiction
Wanted
After
Fiction Writing
Interested
Realized
Hard
Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
Ivana Trump
Great
You
Writing
Almost
Almost Anything
Make
Make Up
Up
Fiction
Anything
Fiction Writing
I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who recognise that life doesn't consist of declarative statements, but rather modifications, qualifications and feelings.
John Burnside
Life
Love
People
Writing
Heroes
Long
Feelings
Big
Statements
Consist
Recognise
Rather
Qualifications
Proust
Fiction
James
Fiction Writing
Sentences
Who
Henry
Henry James
I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.
John Dalton
You
Writing
Discipline
Valuable
Several
Spent
More
Write
Day-To-Day
Highly
Studying
Obsessive
Iowa
Years
Want
Fiction
Fiction Writing
Acquiring
Then
Professionally
Needed
University
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.
Kathy Acker
Best
Writing
First
Think
Magic
More
More And More
First Of All
Fiction
Fiction Writing
Certainly
Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.
Leonard Mlodinow
Me
Writing
World
Takes
Another
Nonfiction
Fiction
Fiction Writing
Whether
When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.
Lily Rabe
Writing
School
Focus
College
Other
High
High School
High School And College
Various
Had
Real
Seminars
Done
Fiction
Fiction Writing
Actually
A decade in advertising exposed me to plenty of schemers and backstabbers. But honestly, advertising is wonderful training for fiction. Writing novels is much easier if you've ever tried to write a billboard.
Marcus Sakey
Me
You
Writing
Wonderful
Training
Honestly
Easier
Plenty
Tried
Write
Advertising
Decade
Fiction
Fiction Writing
Much
Billboard
Exposed
Novels
Ever
We were given clear concrete tools. The course did a great job demystifying the art of fiction writing and fostering confidence. The instructor brought complex concepts down to earth. I will miss coming here every week.
Miguel Ferrer
Art
Great
Confidence
Writing
Will
Job
Down
Every
Tools
Earth
Complex
Great Job
Brought
Given
Week
Clear
Miss
Concepts
Instructor
Course
Concrete
Coming
Were
Did
Fiction
Fiction Writing
Down To Earth
Fostering
Here
Fiction writing and journalism, in my experience, are really excellent training grounds for each other.
Monica Hesse
Experience
Writing
Training
Other
Excellent
Journalism
Fiction
Fiction Writing
Really
Grounds
Each
I think every writer of detective fiction writing today has been influenced by Mr. Parker. I'm of a generation that followed Robert Parker, and it was impossible to read the genre and not be influenced by him.
Robert Crais
Today
Generation
Writing
Impossible
Every
Think
Has-Been
Detective
Followed
Parker
Writer
Robert
Genre
Him
Read
Been
Influenced
Fiction
Fiction Writing
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
Robert Morgan
Writing
Example
Has-Been
Poets
Powerful
Sort
Been
Southern
Maybe
Fiction
Fiction Writing
Themselves
No more fiction writing quotes
Haven't find the right quote? Try another of these similiar topics.
About