Quotes about Writing fiction

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The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind — Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
I'll call any length of fiction a story, whether it be a novel or a shorter piece, and I'll call anything a story in whi — Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
If you are writing fiction, think like a god. Release all the power of your imagination; create worlds and destroy them — Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and monsters but I — Ken Scott
The writer who position is Christian, and probably also the writer whose position is not, will begin to wonder at this p — Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
It seems to me that you might create any sort of character in a novel and there would be at least one person in the worl — Sōseki Natsume, Sanshirō
I still suspect that most people start out with some kind of ability to tell a story but that it gets lost along the way — Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
In any case, you can't have effective allegory in times when people are swept this way and that by momentary convictions — Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Now the second common characteristic of fiction follows from this, and it is that fiction is presented in such a way tha — Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot. — Dennis R. Miller
Write in pictures. With your words, let the reader see not letters, but images. Be specific about every detail, but don' — A.A. Patawaran, Write Here Write Now: Standing at Attention Before My Imaginary Style Dictator
It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can g — Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what I’m going to say, or — T.C. Boyle