Kristin Gore Quotes

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

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot of it is imagination. It's not based on real people.

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.

I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.

When I set out to write 'Sanctus,' all I wanted to do was craft a piece of high quality entertainment.

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.

My books aren't autobiographical.

To write a story is to create a world of your own.

Like all novelists, I'm interested in the filters between reality and the imagination.

With non-fiction, there is the struggle to be accurate. With fiction, it is a bit different: the desire to let imagination take you to new places.

Authors make stuff up. Let's not pretend it's any more magical than that.

The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

I'll often dream about characters before I start writing their stories.

I started writing stories in my spare time.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.