Fiction Writer

Famous quotes containing the words fiction writer, fiction and/or writer:

“The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal to the senses with abstractions.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

“Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)

“The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.”
—William Golding (b. 1911)