Fiction Writing Process Quotes

“Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely practice themselves.”
― Donna Goddard

“We’re making strange fictions of strange things inside ourselves.”
― Clive Barker

“There’s an analogy I came up with once for an interviewer who asked me how much of my material was autobiographical,” Octavia says. “I said that the life experience of a fiction writer is like butter in cookie dough: it’s a crucial part of flavor and texture — you certainly couldn’t leave it out — but if you’ve done it right, it can’t be discerned as a separate element. There shouldn't be a place that anyone can point to and say, There--she's talking about her miscarriage, or Look--he wrote that because his wife had an affair”
― Carolyn Parkhurst, The Nobodies Album

“Taken to the highest form, description should be both a window to the world and a mirror reflection the heart and soul of the point-of-view character.”
― Karen Azinger, Power Writing: Make Your Genre Fiction Soar

“On writing fiction. Let go - of everything. Certainly, that which you think you know. And do not seek meaning, but rather, truth, as you journey lost through 'hot blind earth' of your undiscovered self.”
― Christian Fennell, Torrents of Our Time: Twenty-Two Stories

“On writing fiction. Let go - of everything. Certainly, that which you think you know. And do not seek meaning, but rather, truth, as you journey lost through the 'hot blind earth' of your unknown self.”
― Christian Fennell, Torrents of Our Time: Twenty-Two Stories