Action Quote by Amy Waldman

“[Imagination] is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.…

— Ernest Hemingway

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.

— Beth Moore

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of #storytelling.

— Jeremy Northam

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

— Jean Baudrillard

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

— Howard Gordon

I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for…

— Junot Diaz

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call…

— Haruki Murakami

“The beauty of fiction is it need not be factual and the writer's imagination can travel as far from reality as he or she…

— Sheldon Friedman

I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters,…

— Eric Jerome Dickey

I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality,…

— J. G. Ballard

We're completely confused about the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction. To me, the moment you compose, you're fictionalising; the moment you remember, you're dreaming.…

— David Shields

“When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something to be…

— Carl Henegan