Sentence examples for studied fiction from inspiring English sources

Early on, Talese studied fiction with the strange intention of writing nonfiction, of elevating real life to literary life.

I had never studied fiction before I wrote my first novel; all of my education in craft was of this unconscious kind, an imitation of things I admire in the books I love.

To write a biography with popular appeal, Applegate studied fiction writing, including techniques for suspense and pornographic writing.

He's studied fiction and filmmaking at various universities; just published his first collection of stories; is a doctoral candidate in literature at Yale - and acts in vehicles ranging from General Hospital, to the art film "Howl," to likely crossover hit "127 Hours".

Given that I studied fiction and not film, I have a reverence for books and how they're put together that has probably trained me to spend even more time trying to unpack a text and its author's intentions than maybe other screenwriters do when they write adaptations.

So she quit her job and settled down to study fiction- and memoir-writing.

I quit my job at Dutton in 1985 and headed off to graduate school to study fiction writing.

She currently studies fiction at Hunter College in New York, and is a contributor to "Fire and Forget: Short Stories From the Long War".

When I was an M.F.A. student studying fiction writing, we often critiqued a story by deciding whether it had "heart," but what gives a piece heart is more than technical mastery.

I was admitted to study fiction, but I went because Derek Walcott, whose work I loved, was there.

The first time I ever met a literary agent in person, I was a 22-year-old MFA student studying fiction writing.