I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real.
April 11, 2014
Quote of the Day: Junot Diaz
October 3, 2013
Quote of the Day: Steve Almond
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.
June 7, 2013
Quote of the Day: Roald Dahl
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.
May 13, 2013
Quote of the Day: Gore Vidal
I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.
April 12, 2013
Quote of the Day: William Faulkner
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
March 1, 2013
Quote of the Day: Robert Penn Warren
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.
January 17, 2013
Quote of the Day: Ivana Trump
Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
October 30, 2012
Quote of the Day: Mark Twain
The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.
March 15, 2012
Quote of the Day: Stephen King
Fiction is a lie, and good fiction is the truth inside the lie.
