Circumstances Quote by Ann Leckie

The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.

— Paul Auster

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

— John McGahern

In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of…

— Rohinton Mistry

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes,…

— Jodi Picoult

I think that if you use something from you life in fiction, it metamorphosizes into something strange and different. Afterward it is hard to…

— Marge Piercy

I don't know any writer of fiction who enjoys trying to point out or dissect whatever they produced with strangers and let them go…

— Noah Baumbach

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have…

— Ethan Canin

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

— Jessamyn West

Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.

— David Foster Wallace

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

— Angus Wilson

Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification,

— Marilynne Robinson

Fiction is fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic.

— Dan Chaon