I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes and interests... →
Justin Cronin
I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.
Sloane Crosley
Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.
Mike D
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different... →
Roald Dahl
I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly... →
John Dalton
The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from which we are by now... →
Guy Davenport
I'm very interested in science fiction, and I like new things. I've never been a really sentimental person.
Dave Davies
I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.
Don DeLillo
I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
Anita Diament