182 Quotes About Fiction-writing

Taken to the highest form, description should be both a window to the world and a mirror reflection the heart and soul of the point-of-view character.

Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies.

The joy of reading is in discovery; a good writer creates, "gaps, spaces, and absences," in a richly layered text. He/she creates a desire in the reader to strive for meaning. Paradoxically, the writer guides the reader, but allows them some flexibility to recreate the text, thereby putting their own unique interpretation on what they have read.

There are times when I myself no longer know whether I said and did the things I report or whether I dreamed them up. Anyway, I always dream true. If I lie a bit now and then it is mainly in the interest of truth.

Unfortunately, to try to disconnect faith from vision is to do violence to the whole personality, and the whole personality participates in the act of writing. The tensions of being a Catholic novelist are probably never balanced for the writer until the Church becomes so much a part of his personality that he can forget about her—in the same sense that when he writes, he forgets about himself.

The joy of reading is in discovery; a good writer creates "gaps," "spaces, and "absences," in a richly- layered text, and thus creates desire in the reader to strive for meaning. The author invites and guides the reader to make discoveries, and create his'her own interpretation of what he/she has read

Writers who have the vision and the ability to produce real fiction do not produce unreal fiction.

When I suddenly realised that coincidence is a word we use whe we are ignorant of the real causes

Your afraid the sly little things will steal your heart if the find out you have one- Natalie Savage Carlson " The Family Under The Bridge