Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are…

“Amanda herself couldn't understand why her writing was so different from her own personality. Her pen seemed to take on a life of its…

— Lisa Kleypas

“I feel like these characters, these places, these beings and plots, and even these inanimate objects are counting on me for survival. It’s my…

— Nicholas Trandahl

“Eliot was scornful of idle women readers who imagined themselves the heroines of French novels, and of self-regarding folk who saw themselves in the…

— Rebecca Mead

“Sometimes people who look different from you are scary. Maybe they are ugly. Maybe they are loud. Maybe they are big. Maybe they are…

— Jeff Hutchins

“Some very eminent critics writing in the decades immediately after the novel's publication felt that Eliot failed to maintain sufficient critical distance in her…

— Rebecca Mead

“She knew this day was different and worse, much worse than before. This was the day that Bethany began to believe their lies. And…

— Katie Hubbard

“I write fiction not for my readers and not for myself. I write fiction for the sake of those odd heroic characters that are…

— Nicholas Trandahl

“One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange, impossible place where the beaux of Fielding…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Heavy is the head that holds the pen of creation. We construct these characters from nothing, molding them from our imaginations. We give them…

— Jennifer A. Marsh

“Some fictions become fixtures in the real city. Their stories are so powerful that they leap off the page on to the streets, irreversibly…

— Henry Eliot

“If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don’t have to say anything.…

— Jeff Hutchins

“...history is filled with fictional people. We have all been fooled into believing in people who are entirely imaginary - made-up prisoners in a…

— Robyn Schneider

“There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle readers, but…

— Ana Claudia Antunes

“There are only two things you’ll ever need to know about me, Farin—and you should know them well. I’m very smart, and I’m very…

— Heather O'Brien

“Good fiction can help us to expand our circle of empathy to include people unlike ourselves.- R' Eitan Levy”

— Eitan Levy