Between Quote by Aleksandar Hemon

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have…

— Ethan Canin

“I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's…

— Flannery O'Connor

“The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.”

— Tom Wiseman

“For every work of fiction, the author inserts a bit of themself to make the story seem more real. For every work of nonfiction,…

— A.K. Wallace

“what people write reflects what they believe—fiction is where you go to tell or read the truth that people will stare or laugh at…

— Michael Marshall

“I use Fiction to face Reality And write sweet Stories to avoid the bitter ones.”

— Talia

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

— Alex Flinn

“Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only way to…

— Jeanette Winterson

When viewers watch shows, they should relate to the story. There has to be a blend between reality and fiction.

— Vatsal Sheth

“postmoderns have lost faith in the idea of objective verification. Instead, they focus on the persuasive power of the stories we tell”

— Heath White

“I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts, pictures where…

— Gabrielle Zevin

I've always liked the fact that fiction takes all these pretty unquantifiable human feelings and experiences and projects them onto the page in ways…

— Scott Bradfield