Fiction Quote by Ben Lerner

I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true…

— Errol Morris

My life is kinda like a story that if I told you about it, you probably wouldn't believe. It would seem like fiction. That's…

— Anonymous

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

— David Leavitt

Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much…

— Edwidge Danticat

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.

— Beth Moore

It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.

— Margaret Atwood

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

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you…

— Megan McCafferty

People resist and fight against things that are new that they haven't seen before, especially if they make them uncomfortable. But fiction is a…

— Gail Simone

If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up.

— John Dufresne

I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I…

— Steven Spielberg

A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to what you…

— Jason Katims