Fiction Writing Quotes - Page 4

• I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And so it seemed normal to study both fiction writing and the literary essay as an undergrad.

  Alexander Chee

  Writing, Careers, Normal

  "Adelante (Vol. 41)". Entrevista con Kristen Evans, logger.believermag.com. 26 de febrero de 2016.

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• When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry. And the reason for that is because the fiction writers seemed to need to learn how to pay greater attention to language itself, to the way that language works.

  Edward Hirsch

  Writing, Creative, Taught

  Entrevista en Big Think, bigthink.com.

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• Every good story needs a complication. We learn this fiction-writing fundamental in courses and workshops, by reading a lot or, most painfully, through our own abandoned story drafts. After writing twenty pages about a harmonious family picnic, say, or a well-received rock concert, we discover that a story without a complication flounders, no matter how lovely the prose. A story needs a point of departure, a place from which the character can discover something, transform himself, realize a truth, reject a truth, right a wrong, make a mistake, come to terms.

  Monica Wood

  Mistake, Reading, Character

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• I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

  Janis Ian

  Couple, Writing, Good Luck

  "An Interview With Janis Ian Plus This Week’s New Albums". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. 23 September, 2009.

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• En la universidad hice dos cursos de escritura de ficción y me especialicé en literatura. Sentía que tenía un don, aunque no llegaría a llamarlo talento. Pero me daba miedo. Sentía que escribir era algo infantil y que acabaría olvidándolo.

  Ben Fuente

  Writing, College, Two

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• Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

  Paul Theroux

  Libro, Lectura, Escritura

  "Fiction in the Age of E-Books". "The Atlantic" Interview, www.theatlantic.com. 2010.

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• Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.

  Amy Waldman

  Reading, Writing, Character

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• Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.

  James Rollins

  Real, Writing, Son

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• Escribir ficción es una ocupación de veinticuatro horas al día. Nunca se abandona el trabajo. Siempre está contigo y, en cierta medida, siempre estás pensando en él. No te llevas el trabajo a casa; el trabajo nunca sale de casa. Vive dentro de ti. Reside, crece y cobra vida en tu mente.

  Terry Brooks

  Home, Writing, Thinking

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• First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

  Kathy Acker

  Writing, Thinking, Magic

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• Aprender a escuchar, dejar que la gente termine sus frases y, sobre todo, el hábito de notar la diferencia entre lo que la gente dice y cómo lo dice. {sobre los hábitos de la formación y la práctica psicoanalíticas aplicadas a la escritura de ficción} La diferencia entre lo que la gente te dice y lo que realmente ocurre es lo que me interesa.

  Amy Bloom

  Writing, Practice, Differences

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• Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.

  Paul Harding

  Liars, Reading, Writing

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• For me, writing plays is far more an act of the mind than of the emotions. It's a very different kind of impulse than fiction writing.

  Jim Grimsley

  Writing, Play, Mind

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• My work is very eclectic. I write books that range from writing fiction, writing fable where I am very directly trying to imagine alternate worlds, to writing about [Buckminster] Fuller who was the ultimate world man creating all sorts of alternate worlds and believing that they were imminent to my own work of - for instance, a project that I've been working on for some year and a half, two years now that continues to evolve has been what I call Deep Time Photography.

  Jonathon Keats

  Photography, Believe, Book

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Suena a tópico, pero siempre quise escribir. Después de la universidad, escribí un poco y me di cuenta enseguida de que es difícil ganarse la vida como escritor. En ese momento, me interesaba más escribir ficción.

  Hooman Majd

  Writing, College, Sound

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• I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.

  Susan Orlean

  New York, Writing, Class

  "An Education" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. March 15, 2011.

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• Fiction writing feels more honest to me.

  David James Duncan

  Writing, Fiction, Honest

  David James Duncan (2007). “God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right”, p.189, Triad Institute, Inc.

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• Te juegas mucho escribiendo, tu vanidad está en juego. Descubres una cosa delicada sobre la escritura de ficción: una cierta cantidad de vanidad es necesaria para poder hacerlo todo, pero cualquier vanidad por encima de esa cierta cantidad es letal.

  David Foster Wallace

  Writing, Vanity, Fiction

  David Foster Wallace (2014). “The David Foster Wallace Reader”, Hachette UK

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• A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonists taste in music, or were told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.

  Peter Temple

  Hero, Writing, Personality

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• The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to be minimal but at the same time be a little overfull - to encourage them to do a kind of poetic work.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Trying, Fiction

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• Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people.

  Ayana Mathis

  Writing, People, Imagination

  "Twelve Tribes of Hattie Author Ayana Mathis Talks Fiction, Family, and (Sometimes) Faking It". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. December 17, 2012.

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• With non-fiction writing I feel like I'm confined and driven by what actually happened. That makes the "plot". So it's a process of getting all of my notes typed up, then scanning through the notes, trying to extract or find certain vignettes that seem like they might write well - that might have a potential for good energy, shape, etc. And then at some point I start stringing these together, keeping an eye on the word count.

  George Saunders

  Eye, Writing, Trying

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• When I was hired by the University of Washington extension school to teach the one-year fiction writing course - 96 classroom hours - I quickly determined that I knew only about an hour's worth off the top of my head.

  James Thayer

  Escritura, Escuela, Años

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• I researched fiction writing for months before I taught my first class, much of it looking for strong techniques from bestselling authors.

  James Thayer

  Strong, Writing, Class

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