Top 100 Author Fiction Quotes
#1. When you treat your failures as lessons, you can never fail.
Udai Yadla
#2. [When asked about Writing Conferences]
You meet people that will change your life.
Susan Wingate
#3. Red glowing eyes... No one could see her. No one could hear her. No one was coming to save her. Because Death had come sooner than expected.
Humairaa Anseline
#4. The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#5. High-impact 21st century fiction is built on unique voices, uncommon characters, and tales that can only be told by a particular author. They're sui generis.
Donald Maass
#7. All writers, in all viewpoints, must choose which information and scenes will be presented, and in which order. In that sense, the author is always represented as a point of view in a work of fiction. His hand can always be detected by the discerning.
Nancy Kress
#8. People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.
Sara Sheridan
#9. This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and wondered ...
Tim Perkins
#10. The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#11. More than likely you'll do well enough alone by the engines of your own fate until you either hit a few really nasty bumps in the road or grow old enough to realize that there may be a diamond or two in what you thought was your old man's bucket.
Carew Papritz
#12. I wrote this book for the Nelson Mandela's of our communities who are willing to stand up for change and people who are oppressed or suppressed from fulfilling their life's purpose
Sahndra Fon Dufe
#13. I never liked the influence of others when it came to feelings. I rather went through the painful process of analyzing everything half to death.
Erika M. Szabo
#14. Never trust a fiction author. They spend countless hours making you believe in a world they created. They are among the best, most dedicated liars in the world.
James Ticknor
#15. Putting a piece of you in your protagonist adds depth and merges the worlds of fiction and reality.
Adam Steven Page
#16. Writing is the one thing I know I will never grow tired of in life; the one thing I could do until the day I die and still feel like I haven't done enough.
Allison J. Kennedy
#18. Advice from a Romance Writer: Guys, make your woman feel pretty even on an 'off' day. Trust me, good things will come of it.
Michelle M. Pillow
#19. I've come to realize that love is tragic, somewhere down the line it's inevitable. Fight for it.
Ann Marie Frohoff
#20. Daniel, I was asked of a budding author, how do you know if your story is on track? My answer: I start by knowing my intention, my target. Then, with purpose, I write the scene that unfolds before me, as faithfully as is human. - Daniel LaMonte
Daniel LaMonte
#21. I am also an author. Please check out my novel, A Life Worth Dreaming About.
Nicholas Dettmann
#22. I would make a HORRIBLE outlaw. I can plan the crime perfectly, but I'd also need to plan the outcomes to make it work.
Michelle M. Pillow
#23. In serious Victorian fiction, as in Shakespearian tragedy, melodrama normally functions as metaphor. The author finds a vivid equivalent for a reality too elaborate or too extended to be briefly depicted.
Ian Gregor
#24. Everyone should have a kid. They really put things in perspective. I know a guy can get you one cheap.
Anthony Chapman
#25. If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.
Haruki Murakami
#26. The time is ripe for young Indian authors writing in the English language.
Anurag Shourie
#27. Truth is always wilder than fiction. Hold on to your hats and enjoy this page turning
look inside the world of sports betting from a good girl gone bad for love.
Laura Atchison, Author of What Would A Wise Woman Do?
Laura Atchison
#28. Each time I discovered a potential link between one character's story and another's, several more connections would reveal themselves, like a beautiful, complex web spinning itself.
Richard Scarsbrook
#29. The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are willing to go, and laugh at the people who take it seriously.
Richard P. Denney
#30. Crime isn't pretty, only fashionably dressed.
S.W. Frank
#31. The kindest thing you can offer an author is a review and a star rating. So appreciated.
THE GOLDEN PEACOCK has had a successful 5-star run on Goodreads and on Amazon. Thank you!" Lauren B. Grossman
Lauren B. Grossman
#32. Don't care about success or failure. Keep doing what you love. Success will follow.
Udai Yadla
#33. Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
J. Courtney Sullivan
#34. I read a lot of science fiction, but I also mixed it up with a lot of other genres: crime, literary fiction, as well as nonfiction. Author-wise, I'm a fan of Stephen King, Lauren Beukes, Robert McCammon, Raymond Chandler, Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker and Gail Simone, among many others.
Adam Christopher
#35. The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
Tana French
#36. I love my career. It is a career. A difficult one that takes many hours and total dedication to my craft. It is also what I was born to do
tell stories and entertain.
Michelle M. Pillow
#37. LAURA ATCHISON, Author of "What Would A Wise Woman Do?", on DANGEROUS ODDS by Marisa Lankester:
"Truth is always wilder than fiction.
Hold on to your hats and enjoy this page turning look inside the world of sports betting from a good girl gone bad for love.
Laura Atchison
#38. The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I was.
Sol Luckman
#39. Do try The House by fresh new author, Susannah Mansfield, it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the stories.
Susannah Mansfield
#40. Everyone writes the book he or she loves to read. Great authors write the books others love to read.
Chuck Miceli
#41. The author is impacted by a hidden insistence that takes the shape of different combinations each time a
different text is produced but the underlying problem remains the same for him.
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
#42. If a boy can manage to have coffee with me during the apocalypse, I know he cares. There's not a speck of doubt in my mind. He must care.
Caroline George
#43. There's a fine line between being brave and just not giving a shit anymore.
Sara Furlong Burr
#44. Every writer is first a member of a community of readers, and the deepest purpose of reading and writing fiction is to sustain a sense of connectedness, to resist existential loneliness; and so a novel deserves a reader's attention only as long as the author sustains the reader's trust.
Jonathan Franzen
#45. Believe in your greatness. Because what you believe is what you become.
Udai Yadla
#46. A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader.
W.J. Raymond
#47. A true fiction author is able to act through each character in their book and deliver stunning performances.
Conrad Brasso
#48. Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway.
Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth at the time of the writing, wouldn't it?
Nora Roberts
#49. Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do.
Eveli Acosta
#50. After the end of the world, there is a world. Life doesn't stop. It changes. And it changes me.
Caroline George
#51. I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed by our biology and history. When an author is free to suspend the constraints, it's tennis without a net.
Steven Pinker
#53. I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.
Sam Weller
#54. An author has a gift that is leant to others. seek not to teach; - entertain!
Barry Woodham
#55. is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. THE
Brandon Sanderson
#56. The fact is that roughly two-thirds of all fiction purchases are made because the consumer is already familiar with the author.
Donald Maass
#57. Reading is fuel for the brain. Writing is fuel for the spirit ...
Megan S. Johnston
#58. Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.
John Green
#59. I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.
[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]
Cormac McCarthy
#60. My cat mocks me frequently. It's the universe's way of keeping me from getting too big of an ego.
Michelle M. Pillow
#61. There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.
William Trevor
#63. Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.
Jonathan Franzen
#64. I do tend to look at my books in many ways as conceptual fiction, even to the point where I think the author's photograph is part of the package. And I have gone out of my way to select the photograph to connect to the subject matter of each book.
Bret Easton Ellis
#65. If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.
Brett Armstrong
#66. What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
Pat Barker
#67. Love isn't easy. It isn't perfect like in stories or movies--but it's real. When we feel it, it reminds us we are alive, and when we truly feel it--it hurts like hell--but it reminds us why we live... For the hope of love.
N.A. Koziol
#68. Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'
Friedrich Nietzsche
#69. Every act of goodness it's born from our desire to be happy.
Udai Yadla
#70. Affection is when we can't find any flaws in the other. Maybe I could if I really wanted to, but I don't want to, I accept you as you are.
Erika M. Szabo
#71. For some reason, when people meet me and find out I'm a writer they always ask if I write children's books. Um ... please don't let your kids read my books. Well, unless your kids are in their 30s or something ... then yeah, they're old enough. LOL
Michelle M. Pillow
#72. Fall into the cavern of my mind, and together there, we will dine.
Brad Jensen
#73. People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take liberties with character descriptions.
Michelle M. Pillow
#74. If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better.
Alexandar Tomov
#75. The unification of worlds is an author's priority, as one of them surely resides forbidden to the public.
P.A. Wunderlich
#77. My father used to say that all protagonists were versions of the author who wrote them - even if it meant the author had to acknowledge a side of himself that he did not know existed. It just required courage.
Catherine Lowell
#78. You are the author of your life. If you don't like how it goes, write it differently.
Iva Kenaz
#79. An author of fiction is a god of the world he creates. But it must be a world others want to inhabit.
Raul Ramos Y Sanchez
#81. Dream sets us on fire.
Dream gives us direction.
Dream betters our potential.
Dream helps us prioritize.
Dream adds value to our work and
life.
Dream colors our future.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#82. Writing is something you Do and not discuss. Talk is cheap, wishes are free and a fool is included with every purchase. So spend your time wisely.
Jaime Reed
#83. Neither in the deepest ocean
Nor in the perpetual snow
Heaven was on earth that day
For some reason we are yet to know
Sameer Kumar
#84. If you ever find yourself coming out of a time machine, run. Run away as fast you can. Don't stop. Don't try to talk. Nothing good can come out of it. narrator Charles Yu, not author Charles Yu p19
Charles Yu
#85. A man of peace is guided by peace, but when that peace is threatened, he has a choice to either kneel down and die silently as it falls into chaos, or fight for it and not look back. ~ Ryan Mark, Author
Ryan Mark
#86. A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.
Anthony Burgess
#87. Mistakes are not bad; excuses are.
Udai Yadla
#88. When people say, 'you're so young to be a writer,' I always reply, 'I started young because I've got a lot to write.
Carla H. Krueger
#89. Remember what I said. There's always a lot of autobiography in fiction and fiction in autobiography. It has to be that way otherwise they'd be unreadable (except by the author).
Nina Stibbe
#90. Is a First Lady truly a necessity? Shouldn't each wife of a president have a right to choose to accept the position or not?
Venita Ellick
#91. every man has his own story, his own agony
("The Watcher O' The Dead")
John Guinan
#92. The web is a dangerous place for a mind begging to slack off and be distracted by nonsense.
Michelle M. Pillow
#93. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Shannon Hale
#94. There is only one misery . . . not to be saints.
Leon Bloy
#95. I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand but not in the left ...
Amy Tan
#96. When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
Tayari Jones
#97. Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.
Alexander McCall Smith
#98. It is childish to study a work of fiction in order to gain information about a country or about a social class or about the author.
Vladimir Nabokov
#99. Writing fiction or nonfiction is a lonely battle wrestling with sentences in an effort to put together an intelligible thought that speaks for the author.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#100. You put cow dung on my face?' 'Every day religiously until you were three. Why else do you think your skin is so clear?
Renita D'Silva
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