A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a…

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot…

— Gloria Vanderbilt

The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of…

— Eudora Welty

The strange and wonderful Book of Job treats of the same subject as we are discussing; its contents are a fiction, conceived for the…

— Maimonides

The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Most of the history is a divine work of fiction.

— Kedar Joshi

“This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what has been…

— Ernest Hemingway

Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New…

— Terry Brooks

The Bible, I've said it before, is a beautifully written work of fiction.

— Janeane Garofalo

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

— Wilkie Collins

“I consider all things a work of fiction, even myself.”

— Nancy B. Brewer

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“I'm a novelist. Anything you say can be taken down and used against you in a work of fiction.”

— Anne R. Allen

There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is…

— James D'arcy

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.

— Kurt Vonnegut

A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work…

— Chaim Potok