Come Quote by Amitava Kumar

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any…

— Lou Reed

As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real.

— Julia Glass

I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.

— Jean Giono

If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details...real life is in the dishes. Real life is pushing…

— Anna Quindlen

I try to write about realistic people doing realistic things. Or as close as I can get, given that I'm trying to write a…

— Nick Petrie

I want what I write to be deeply engaging and strange and true.

— Dana Spiotta

I like to write about real-life topics, and I like to write about different walks of life.

— Mark Foster

The last thing I want to do is to write about real things. I am not interested in reality and in real human beings…

— Andre Aciman

I am really just writing about real life.

— Klayton

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets…

— Caroline B. Cooney

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

— Jackie Collins

“take details from “real life” into fiction and make them believable requires careful work: creating characters the reader can believe would do the unbelievable…

— Dorothy Allison