Quotes About Fiction

The imagination is a place all by itself. A separate country. Now, you've heard of the French nation, the British nation. Well, this is the Imagi-nation. It's a wonderful place.

People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination

A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way.

When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever in our imaginations, and its characters live on.

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

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.

Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.

Our imagination often is more horrifying than being shown something.

For the most part Hollywood is a world of imagination.

The death of Satan was a tragedy For the imagination.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.

Castle is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.

Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.

Anyone with an imagination can write about the day-to-day experiences of someone he or she is not.

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people.

I think that one thing fiction can offer, and must offer, is a place where someone's mind and their imagination can come to rest for a little while.

Speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world.

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.