Real people Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

“I want either the fiction to be real or me to be fictional.”

— Andrea Závodská

“Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it moves people's hearts as well…

— Ian Leslie

“The only real people are the people who never existed, and if a novelist is base enough to go to life for his personages…

— Oscar Wilde

“Fiction should always challenge what you believe in, and make you think hard about what it is to be a human being.”

— Joe Mynhardt

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“The extraordinary thing about inventing a persona is that one is loathe to give it up, especially if the fiction sits comfortably.”

— Gita Mehta

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

— Tom Wiseman

“There is a moment, in all my studying of movies and scripts, that I’d realized something elemental about human beings and why I’d been…

— C.J. Roberts

“If a writer doesn't believe his fictional characters are actually real, how can he expect the readers to?”

— Jim Power

“I use Fiction to face Reality And write sweet Stories to avoid the bitter ones.”

— Talia

“Fiction that fails to engage an audience with the emotional intricacies of viable characters will, for many in that audience, simply alienate them with…

— Hal Duncan

Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies,…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman