Truth Quote by Alison Bechdel

“You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.”

— Thomas Harris

“I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren't any.”

— Teri Louise Kelly

“When you are writing a novel, you aren't making it up. The story is already there. You just have to find it.”

— Thomas Harris

“In my life I haven’t done anything worth writing about, but that’s OK. That’s why I write fiction.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Keeping up the fiction. You have to keep it up, sometimes, no matter how you feel.”

— Stephen King

“I'm a fiction writer not by choice, but by necessity. It's the only way I can say what I want without having to admit…

— Jack Tate

“I consider all things a work of fiction, even myself.”

— Nancy B. Brewer

“Everything in my novel is true, except the stuff I made up.”

— L.D.C. Fitzgerald

“I'm a novelist. Anything you say can be taken down and used against you in a work of fiction.”

— Anne R. Allen

“I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Fiction is nothing but non-fiction couched to conceal the identity of the writer.”

— Tapan Ghosh

“I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.”

— Sara Sheridan