Quotes About Fiction

Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.

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

The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.

In real life, I'd say that your commitment-phobe/narcissist/bad boy boyfriend is a lost cause, but romance is shelved in fiction for a reason.

I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.

Real life is far more complicated than fiction.

I believe any fiction writer is inspired by real life.

Even if it happened in real life - and oftentimes, especially if it happened in real life - it might not work in fiction.

In real life, writers tend to be quite boring, but in our books, we're having exciting adventures all the time.

If you break things down to goodies and baddies, the baddies are always a bit more alluring in fiction, and that's true from a narrative point of view. But I wanted to write a novel about real life, and real life is a bit more nuanced than that.

Among adults, we can admit that of course, characters are creations. They aren't real people.

Meta-fiction doesn't depend on the illusion that you're reading about real people.

I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

I always talk about my characters like they're real people.

I make things up for a living. It would be pretty boring to just fictionalize real people.

The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope.

I was on the lookout for something different, as I was exhausted with the fiction space. When I was asked to host 'Tujhse Naaraz Nahin Zindagi,' it was not as an actor but as an individual, and on being explained the concept, I found it interesting and accepted it since it was about real people and real life.

To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.

I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.

We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, they can't get anywhere near as complex as a real person.

You can be empathetic to a character in a book in a way that you can't with a real person, which is weird, because you know everything there is to know about them.

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional world or a real world, you do get to see somebody else's point of view, whether he's a good guy or a bad guy.