Quotes About Fiction

Ich glaube nicht, dass er dich verachtet«, widersprach Furia, die in Liebesdingen auf die Erfahrungen zahlloser Romanheldinnen zurückgreifen konnte. Was sich in etwa so anfühlte, als läse man exotische Kochbücher, ohne je etwas anderes als Dinkelbrot zu essen.

Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses

Lucky,' Zahra said, and Maryam grinned. She liked nothing better than to be compared to Lucky Santangelo, heroine of the Jackie Collins novels, composed in equal parts of courage, ruthlessness and loyalty.

My writing, it's mostly fiction, but I want it to feel intimate and real.

I can't read fiction when I'm writing fiction, because I get intimidated if I read something really good.

I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

I think one of the battles for fiction writers is how much to invent or exaggerate.

As writers, our job is to try to create, in a fake space, something that feels true. That's just straight-up fiction: Invent a character that doesn't exist; make them seem like they do.

In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence of history.

In fiction, you don't invent the events. What is imaginative about it is the consciousness: how you think about the events and how you present them. And that changes the nature of everything, and that is the attraction of writing fiction.

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

Henry is entirely invented though by now I feel he's as real as anyone I know.

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

As a writer you often watch things with a certain distance.. More often, you're worried that something that you have invented is going to become reality, and you'll look like you copied it.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

I like inventing things when I write rather than autobiography.

As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real.

You write a novel by inventing a world and inventing the rules that govern that world. Then you break the rules when you want to.

Inventing characters is extraordinary: proper authors say so often that characters 'just appear' and that does happen. These people keep leaping out and saying, why don't you write about me?

In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters.

I do crazy amounts of research. I want this stuff to 'work,' so to speak. I need to be, at least to me, believable - because if I feel - if I cannot invest some element of verisimilitude, the reader is absolutely not going to buy in.