Fiction Quote by Alice Mattison

Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world…

— Orson Scott Card

We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable.

— Mary Kay Andrews

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

— Phil Klay

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know…

— Hunter S. Thompson

To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on…

— Aldous Huxley

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.

— Neil Gaiman

I think you can use fiction to get inside people's minds.

— Don Winslow

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people…

— Nick Earls

I want my fiction to seem real.

— Mary Kay Andrews

The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.

— Kurt Vonnegut