"I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it."

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"I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it."

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"A public is a necessary fiction."

Rowan D. Williams, British Archbishop

Fiction, Public

"I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction."

Judith Krantz, American Novelist

Fiction, Fun, Writing, Years

"What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage."

Stephen King, American Author

Fiction, Danger, Imagination, Truth, Wisdom

"When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately."

John C. Hawkes, American Novelist

Fiction, Writing

"When one day an expedition was sent to the spatial coordinates that Voojagig had claimed for the planet they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

Fiction, Truth, Lies, Belief, Fantasy

"Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction."

John Cheever, American Writer

Fiction,

"I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really."

Paul Kane, English Writer

Fiction, Personality, Respect, Writers

"Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic."

John Le Carre, English Writer

Fiction,

"Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door after breakfast smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that reached nearly down to his woolly toes (neatly brushed)-Gandalf came by."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Fiction, Smoking, Fantasy, Character

"Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about."

Sanhita Baruah, Indian Writer

Fiction, Direction, Meaning, Focus, Clarity

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"I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read."

People

"I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time."

Time

"Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer."

Books

"I don't consciously do anything to maintain a unique voice."

Voice

"It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering."

Awareness

"Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience."

Experience

"Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do."

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"A public is a necessary fiction."

"I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction."

"What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage."

"When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately."

"When one day an expedition was sent to the spatial coordinates that Voojagig had claimed for the planet they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying."

"Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction."

"I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really."

"Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic."

"Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door after breakfast smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that reached nearly down to his woolly toes (neatly brushed)-Gandalf came by."

"Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about."

Explore more quotes by Thomas Perry

"I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read."

"I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time."

"I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre."

"I do like to explore evil characters in my books."

"Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck."

"Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer."

"I don't consciously do anything to maintain a unique voice."

"It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering."

"Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience."

"Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do."