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Writer's block is a fiction.
I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.
I believe any fiction writer is inspired by real life.
I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.
I'm a neurotic fiction writer who'd like to be a cowboy.
Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.
If you just take me as a fiction writer, then you're probably going to find me fairly limited.
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.
Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
I was kind of broke . 'The Girl on the Train' was a last roll of the dice for me as a fiction writer.
Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.
The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.
The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.
I do understand my limitations as a fiction writer, which is why my novels are always going to be close to home.
Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype.
The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
I am not a pure fiction writer, nor am I an academic writer. Somehow I ended up in this blended area of literary journalism.
As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.
I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.
As a science fiction writer, it's hard to think of a more stirring theme than the origin and ultimate destiny of life in the universe.
Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.
I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my own personality.
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer.
The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling.
Prose is admittedly an art rooted in social intercourse, and a fiction writer is faster to find a common denominator with his cell mates than a poet is.
I love historical fiction because there's a literal truth, and there's an emotional truth, and what the fiction writer tries to create is that emotional truth.
Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short and robust answer is, 'Certainly not.'
Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.
I quickly learned that as a fiction writer, you need the sort of details a historian or a biographer would find extraneous or useful to provide context via a footnote.
I wanted to be a writer, but I kind of wanted to be a fiction writer someday, like 20 - 25 years down the line. I never thought I'd write a nonfiction memoir about Iraq.
Usually, as a fiction writer, you get e-mails saying, 'I liked your book,' or 'I didn't like it.' You don't get something saying, 'I'm really glad this is in the world.'
I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.
I'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you can learn to do that well is by really understanding the lives of real people.
I had liver disease. I'm completely cured now, but I thought about if I died from liver cancer, what my life would look like. I followed this wish of being a fiction writer.
Poetry was my dirty little secret when I was a fiction writer at Iowa, and then fiction became my dirty little secret when I started writing more poetry and working for 'Rookie'.
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.
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't.
We want a world with both historians and novelists, don't we? Not with one or the other. Every fiction writer crosses the line that divides artistry and documentation - or erases it.
When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.
By the time I was twenty-three, I'd given up any thought of becoming a fiction writer, and I didn't return to the craft for over two decades. But, at the age of forty-five, return I did.
I don't think I've ever really been a science fiction writer. I'm closer to a fantasist, speculative fiction, whatever, but labels are ultimately derogatory, and I eschew them as best I can.
I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom as a fiction writer. Nothing that happened holds any special tyranny over me.
I never had a plan to be a fiction writer. It's something that happened to me. Sometimes I think maybe it was my spectacular mid-life crisis. Some people buy expensive cars, and I wrote a novel.
There are autobiographical elements to the albums, and when I write, I always reference my own life as well as other things, so I'm just like any novelist or any fiction writer who tells stories.
I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.
I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.