Dreams Quote by Ann Marie Aguilar

“what people write reflects what they believe—fiction is where you go to tell or read the truth that people will stare or laugh at…

— Michael Marshall

“fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“Prose fiction is something you build up from twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks, and you, and you alone, using your imagination,…

— Neil Gaiman

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

— Phil Klay

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

— Khaled Hosseini

“Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconcile, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“Fiction---good fiction, anyway---is dream made flesh, given purpose and drive, and set on a quest to show us the best in us and to…

— Holly Lisle

“Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader willingly or…

— Arti Honrao

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

— Nadine Gordimer

“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.”

— James Van Pelt

“The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.”

— Tom Wiseman

“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it…

— Neil Gaiman