“I haven't written a word of fiction since 2009. I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.” WayWritingDoneDesireFictionWrittenHavensLatePublishingAmazedAnother WayMore To Life Author:Philip Roth
“writing had to take the form of journalism. Not for me the Shangri-la of fiction. The rewards, if any, would have been too little and too late, the bailiffs were at the door. ... Two large bailiffs, they were, who visited frequently and smiled like grand pianos, the only really reliable men in my life. They told me what they were going to do and if they did it, woe was me.” IfsMenWritingLittlesHas BeensTwoFormFictionDoorsLateRewardsJournalismPianoToo LateWoeShangri Author:Jill Tweedie
“There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us are mama's boys. I lived at home until I was 27. But most of the writers I know in any field, especially science fiction, grew up late. They're so interested in doing what they do and in their science, they don't think about other things.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWritingKindHomeCertainFictionBoysFieldsGrewLateMarriedGrew UpScience FictionMamaMama's Boy Author:Ray Bradbury
“I'm not disciplined in terms of scheduling. I work best late at night, but I can't do that when I'm on a TV show - our hours are roughly 10-6:30, so I have to go to sleep at a reasonable hour. So I'll sometimes write fiction for an hour or two in the evenings, or several hours on the weekend afternoons - unless I'm actively writing a script for the show I'm working on, in which case there's no time to write fiction at all.” WritingI CanTwoSometimesShowsNightTermHoursSleepFictionCasesTvsLateScriptsEveningReasonableAfternoonWeekendTv ShowsGoing To SleepScheduling Author:Nick Antosca
“The films that I loved growing up were the science fiction films from the late seventies and early eighties [films], which were more about the people and how they are affected by the environments that they are in. Whether they are sort of futuristic or alien of whatever they are; that was the science fiction that I loved. So that is what we tried to make, the sort of film that felt like those old films.” PeopleFilmFeltFictionGrowing UpEnvironmentGrowingLateScience FictionAliensAffectedSeventiesEightyFuturistic Author:Duncan Jones
“The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and I think it's how you teach yourself to write.” ThinkingWritingFirstsStoriesFictionTeachLateTwentiesShort StoryTeensWriting ShortWriting Short Stories Author:Jess Walter
“As a writer, I was deliberately creating an alternate world, and then populating it with experiences and people that I knew in this world, but I'd shake up the mix considerably. And about the same time that the memoir was becoming the dominant popular literary form in the mid to late 90s, I started reading writers who were deliberately playing with the notion of "truth" and "fiction" - that struck me as a much more interesting way to tell certain stories, particularly in the realm of comedy.” PeopleWorldWayStoriesFormCertainReadingInterestingFictionComedyThis WorldBecomingLateCreatingNotionMemoirRealmsShakesDominantInteresting Ways Author:Kevin Keck
“I came to fantasy fairly late. For some ten years, I had been happily writing fiction and non-fiction for adults. But I always loved fantasy, whether for adults or young people; and at that particular point in my life, I wanted to try it, to understand it, as part of the process of learning to be a writer. The results were beyond anything I could have foreseen. As I've said often and elsewhere, it was the most creative and liberating experience of my life.” PeopleWritingTryingYearsSaidWantedYoungProcessResultsFictionFantasyCreativeParticularTenLateAdultsElsewhereLiberatingNon FictionWriting FictionForeseen Author:Lloyd Alexander
“Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.” HomeThreeLiteratureFictionWifeLateWhalesOne Hundred Years Of Solitude Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez