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)

“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)

“I’m a writer first & a woman after.”
—Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923)