Details Quote by Aimee Mann

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

— Jami Attenberg

There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.

— Howard Jacobson

I really like stories, so in a way it doesn't matter for me if they are real or fiction.

— Volker Bertelmann

I think one of the reasons that I like fiction versus nonfiction is that I myself can kind of disappear from the story.

— Celeste Ng

Fiction always reveals a lot about the person who is writing it. That's the scary thing. Not in a straightforward autobiographical sense. But the…

— Katie Kitamura

Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when I would…

— Jonathan Ames

I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

— Nicole Krauss

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes,…

— Jodi Picoult

Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much…

— Edwidge Danticat

I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story,…

— Emily Susan Rapp

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

— Wilkie Collins

It is a misrepresentation to call my works fiction; the work loses something when categorized this way. I realize that the stories are somewhat…

— Jill Magid