Artificiality Quote by Ben Lerner

Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing that emerges…

— Robert Coover

“Okay, let's say that a metamove or metagesture is when the author intentionally draws attention to a work's genre, its very existence as fiction…

— Jill Talbot

“metawriting can be viewed as "the act of doing something outside of the game in order to impact what is actually occurring in the…

— Jill Talbot

Simply put, meta-writing is writing that is self-conscious, self-reflective, and aware of itself as an artifice. The writer is aware she's writing, and she's…

— Jill Talbot

I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer, who tends…

— Paul Auster

In a way, metafiction breaks down the story and makes it less real. But in another respect, by that very breaking down, it actually…

— James Gunn

The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks…

— Aberjhani

Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others

— William Gibson

Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.

— Steven Pinker

The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.

— James Kelman

I first heard the term "meta-novel" at a writer's conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The idea is that even though each book in a series…

— Carolyn Wheat

For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.

— Karen Russell