182 Quotes About Fiction-writing

Fiction may deal with faith implicitly but explicitly it deals only with faith-in-a-person, or persons. What must be unquestionable is what is implicitly implied as the author’s attitude, and to do this the writer has to succeed in making the divinity of Christ seem consistent with the structure of all reality. This has to be got across implicitly in spite of a world that doesn’t feel it, in spite of characters who don’t live it. — Flannery O’Connor, The Habit of Being

I think one of the great things about fiction is that it takes the chaos of life and feeds it back to one in a form that is emotionally satisfying.

Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction.

I think the hardest part of writing fiction is getting over the fear of exposure. It can be terrifying to put your thoughts on paper. Much of fiction is taking real people and embellishing their defining characteristics until they are more interesting, more horrifying, more saintly, or simply more entertaining. Once you muster up the courage to put your thoughts and feelings into your characters and down on paper you are on your way.

We decide what is real and what is an illusion.

I came to conquer this land and its people, but instead, one of its people conquered me.

Writing - the act of one person giving a piece of their soul to another.

If theme is the soul of a story, then the characters are its beating heart.

Uncertain of what he wanted, I turned to meet his eyes.Pupils dilating.Breathing hitched.He looked rough. Intense. Wild.But then he smiled.And something shifted.