Dreams Quote by Andrzej Wajda

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other…

— Nathalie Sarraute

Like all novelists, I'm interested in the filters between reality and the imagination.

— Hisham Matar

We are living in an era of such interesting new forms, and certainly narrative non-fiction has emerged as a major form. People who are…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

— Northrop Frye

I feel like there's already a written narrative going on everywhere. All the different situations and realities you're in, like words floating by. It's…

— Bill Callahan

Novelists should be free to write whatever they want, to let their imaginations roam as close to or as removed from reality as they…

— Sarah Weinman

No creator in modern times is going to stick around with a concept for 20 years. There are simply too many alternatives that writers…

— Chris Claremont

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.

— Romain Gary

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

— Mary Kay Andrews

I don't think writing fiction has changed my worldview.

— Donald Ray Pollock

“What if all works of fiction were alternative realities and Authors glimpsed from them”

— Justyn Simon

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

— J. G. Ballard