I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense. — Leigh Michaels Copy Share Image
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
The purpose of fiction is not to make people seem nice. What makes anyone think people are nice? Look around you! — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“but the fact is that New York is as much a myth as a place, and because we all participate in that… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“And if publishers are too skittish to bite—sell it as goddamn fiction. Make yourself the author and change the names if necessary.… — Joshua V. Scher Copy Share Image
There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.' — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
“I am not ultimately interested in writing fiction. I can't make things up. Or rather, I can only make things up about… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In fiction you can make up everything to create the feeling. You can manufacture a story with whatever tools you want. With… — Chelsea Martin Copy Share Image
“take details from “real life” into fiction and make them believable requires careful work: creating characters the reader can believe would do… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
