Fiction Quote by Aleksandar Hemon

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

— John Grisham

Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow older, even…

— Roger Angell

I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true…

— Errol Morris

Everybody's always living in fiction just as much as children, but the way our stories are faked is curtailed by all sorts of narratives…

— Claire Messud

So much of what I write in fiction is based on true stories.

— Mark Kurlansky

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

— Volker Bertelmann

Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction.

— Charles Bock

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

— Augusten Burroughs

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

— Patrick Rothfuss

All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.

— Kate Morton

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you…

— Megan McCafferty

I like fictional stories - like, things that never happened but the seed of it starts as real.

— Jake M. Johnson