21.   The professor marches into class and announces that the students are all geniuses who will have a great time writing great fiction.

22.   This is about pure entertainment, and Rae has a fun, bitchy, savvy way of writing fiction.

23.   Those words are at once a statement of media fact and a presumed source of solace to DeLillo as he gets ready to return to writing fiction.

24.   What happens when a writer well known for her cookbooks on the foods and folklore of Italy turns her hand to writing fiction?

25.   Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one.

26.   Writing fiction is not about first love, that blush of self-love when you discover your name in print.

27.   Rao admitted publicly that he was writing fiction earlier this year when he released a book by a well known Indian poet.