Amy Landecker Quotes

I'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you can learn to do that well is by really understanding the lives of real people.

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.

Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

I would never make up a character who didn't exist or an event that didn't transpire. If you're a real writer, you have other tools in your toolbox to build drama.

I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.

In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.

I like going back and writing fiction.

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.

All of my novels are seeded in real life events, and 'The Wreckage' is no different.

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.

Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes.

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

I don't read much nonfiction because the nonfiction I do read always seems to be so badly written. What I enjoy about fiction - the great gift of fiction - is that it gives language an opportunity to happen.

Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.

Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in equal measure. I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself, and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

My books aren't autobiographical.

In fiction, you don't invent the events. What is imaginative about it is the consciousness: how you think about the events and how you present them. And that changes the nature of everything, and that is the attraction of writing fiction.

The short story has been here and is here and will be here as long as we are.