“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.” WritingRealAgeYoungFictionCareersSuccessfulBloodSonYoung AgeFiction WritingPedigree Author:James Rollins
“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.” WritingMeanCharacterActionTurnsReadingImaginationLinesDealsFictionParadoxFiction Writing Author:Amy Waldman
“Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.” WritingSecretFiction WritingWriters And WritingWriting By WritersWriting StyleFamous WritersWritten Language Author:Matthew Arnold