Beth Moore Quotes

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'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life.

Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

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

I'm always excited about stories that allow me to explore a character and create interesting stories and worlds that we haven't seen before.

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

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.

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.

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.

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

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

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

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

It never ceases to amaze me that readers who are willing to suspend their disbelief when it comes to the motivation of a vicious serial killer get high and mighty because I have put a coffee shop where there isn't one. Er... it's a novel. I made one up. I'm allowed to make stuff up. I'd go as far as to suggest that I make stuff up for a living.

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.

It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want.

I'm very interested in writing an actual series, that doesn't have too much to do with my music - a world I create that has characters in it. I'm just trying to get there by doing things that I want to do.

Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

The things that I'm interested in directing are fiction, because then you're not married to a particular reality.

As a writer of fiction, you don't ever want to limit the characters you create to the life you've lived. That's insanity to me.

I suppose I'm pulled towards fiction because I really like the freedom it gives me.

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

When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.

I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real.