182 Quotes About Fiction-writing

Good fiction can help us to expand our circle of empathy to include people unlike ourselves.- R' Eitan Levy

Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.

It's kind of strange- in fiction you get to tell lies and are applauded for it.

She asserted that the best fictional detail was a chosen detail, not a remembered one - for fictional truth was not only the truth of observation, which was the truth of mere journalism. The best fictional detail was the detail that should have defined the character or the episode or the atmosphere. Fictional truth was what should have happened in a story - not necessarily what did happen or what had happened.

In writing, there is art. And in art there is craft ...

Expand your world. (Stories about wizards and spells) are very frequently about power relationships...

To my fellow writers' I say, 'Write. Build an imaginary world like nobody's watching.

true fiction is more likely to include what was overlooked or ignored or barely seen or felt at the time of its occurrences but comes continually to mind ten or twenty years afterwards not on account of its having long ago provoked passion or pain but because of its appearing to be part of a pattern of meaning that extends over much of a lifetime

Writing is a solitary business. It’s just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill.