Fiction Writer

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

“It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

“A fiction about soft or easy deaths ... is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

“Men like women who write. Even though they don’t say so. A writer is a foreign country.”
—Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)