"If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore."

Fiction, Loneliness, Lonely

14

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore."

Exlpore more Fiction quotes

"Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on."

Buddy Ebsen, American Actor

Fiction, Limits, Value, Writing

"Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message."

Jerry B. Jenkins, American Novelist

Fiction,

"And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction."

Stanley Schmidt, American Writer

Fiction, Now, Writers

"Villainessa Tittel was a hired killer, an assassin by trade. She had enjoyed the best education and had been trained by assassins who had (until then at least) been considered the best in the business. She had turned to 'cleaning' as an occupation because she really enjoyed endings more than beginnings " and anyway, she didn't need to know her mark's entire pedigree or life's story, or to have some kind of facetious moral justification just to collect her fee. Unsurprisingly, when she did read " on those rare occasions " her books were always dog-eared from the back."

Christina Engela, South African Author

Fiction, Occupation, Morality, Violence, Choice

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

John Cheever, American Writer

Fiction,

"I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying."

Anita Diament, American Author

Fiction, Trying

"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

"It all floats down here!"

Stephen King, American Author

Fiction, Fear, Mystery, Darkness, Horror

"This is only a work of fiction , The Truth as always will be far stranger."

Arthur C. Clarke, English Writer

Fiction, Truth, Observation, Imagination

"Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground."

Patricia Highsmith, American Novelist

Fiction, Feet

Explore more quotes by Denis Johnson

"I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me."

Money

"You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations."

Expectation

"I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it."

Family

"I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision."

Vision

"I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off."

Writing

"In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts."

Truth

"All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first."

Poetry

"I didn't finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldn't work and I didn't have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more."

Work

"What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down."

Fun

"If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having."

Experience