Good fiction makes the truth believable.

Sometimes the truth is not as believable as a well-crafted lie.

— Linda Palmer

“The truth is not believable to someone who has not lived it in his muscles.”

— Jean Hatzfeld

“Everything's science fiction until someone makes it science fact.”

— Marie Lu

Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like…

— Linwood Barclay

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

— Anonymous

“The art of fiction has not changed much since prehistoric times. The formula for telling a powerful story has remained the same: create a…

— Ben Bova

“Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely…

— Donna Goddard

Once you finish a book, it doesn't belong to you anymore. You're giving it to other people. If something in what a writer writes…

— Paul Auster

What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has…

— Chris Bohjalian

It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal of good…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

I just don't think I'm very good at fiction.

— Jon Ronson

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

— E. L. Doctorow

“Good fiction is not defined by the masses, but by the tentative ear.”

— James D. Maxon

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living…

— Vincent Canby

It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.

— J. B. Priestley