Quotes About Fiction

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high.

The reality I submerse myself in when writing, is far greater than the physical reality surrounding me at work!

In fiction workshops, we tend to focus on matters of verisimilitude largely because such issues are so much easier to talk about than the failure of imagination.

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

If you create a character, you create a destiny.

If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.

Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.

A fairy-tale life exists only in fairy tales.

Writers get to construct a magical world that readers can visit in thought and extend their stay with imagination.

This is what storytelling gets you. You make things up that aren't real, and then get upset when they don't turn out as expected.

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

Only a writer holds conversations between people that don't exist. We don't talk to ourselves. We talk to people we created from nothing.#FromTheInternet #AuthorUnknown