Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable…

Much like film, authors spend a fair amount of time alone in the creative process, tossing their work out into what can feel like…

— Mary Pilon

“I would say that Op 31 had brought music just to the very edge … I just simply drew back and said, “beyond that…

— Leo Ornstein

“democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion”

— Rohinton Mistry

“Few men can resist expressing their appetites when they're making a fantasy about themselves.”

— John le Carré

“My mother used to read to me every night when I was little. We got through most of the major fantasy books of that…

— Wendy Froud

You're making a fantasy. You're making something real out of a fantasy. And then it no longer exists. It's heartbreaking to leave behind. I…

— Parker Posey

Why am I an atheist? The short answer is that I cannot accept any of the alternatives. I simply don't find them believable.

— Barbara Smoker

American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and…

— Edward R. Murrow

Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which…

— Anne Tyler

As an actor, I like my films to be believable.

— Kay Kay Menon

“Good fiction makes the truth believable.”

— Tarrant Smith

In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the familiar milieu…

— Orson Scott Card

'The Avengers' made it more believable that I could have been a major in the U.S. Army.

— Cobie Smulders

Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and…

— Kerry Washington

Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go…

— Rick Riordan