Quote by Ayn Rand

“This kind of fiction doesn't interest me.”

— david foster wallace

“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.”

— Flannery O'Connor

“Fiction has to be well researched, properly conceived and logically presented. Reality needs none of the above.”

— Manoj Vaz

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

— Tapan Ghosh

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once…

— John Hawkes

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

— Siri Hustvedt

“a story is a letter the author writes to himself to tell what he wouldn't discover otherwise.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.”

— Ann Marie Aguilar

“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate of all…

— Joseph Conrad

“No fiction is good fiction unless it is true to life, and yet no life is worth relating unless it be a life out…

— William Gerhardie

“Unfortunately, the story wasn’t a novel, and it wasn’t fiction.”

— Aleatha Romig

“This story was not written for people who do not know what I'm talking about.”

— Christopher Higgs