Lestat de lioncourt Quote by Anne Rice

“Fiction is nothing but non-fiction couched to conceal the identity of the writer.”

— Tapan Ghosh

“I was a little resentful that when a woman writes, her personal story becomes part of the story, even though the novel is fiction.”

— Roxane Gay

“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Fiction is a mix of reality, the interpretation of that reality and a lot of "what if".”

— Jim Sellers

“Fiction, however, sometimes ensures disappointment with reality”

— Miguel Syjuco

“The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction.”

— Donald Miller

“But I’m not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out for us.…

— Anthony Horowitz

“I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren't any.”

— Teri Louise Kelly

“...required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work out that…

— Ted Conover

“Sometimes lost in a book, you forget which is the real world and which is fiction.”

— Gurnam Singh Sodhi

“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned for the…

— Tom Rachman

“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