“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
Ernest Hemingway
“It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.”
Mark Twain
“A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.”
William Faulkner
“Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.”
John Updike
“You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.”
“Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.”
Ivana Trump
“Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.”
Eudora Welty
