Hope Quote by Beth Kephart

“Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconcile, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

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

— Ann Marie Aguilar

“Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader willingly or…

— Arti Honrao

“I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for…

— Sue Monk Kidd

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

— Siri Hustvedt

Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are…

— Terry Brooks

“I write what I feel, fiction with a twist of truth. I don't write because I want to, I write because I have to.”

— Jack Tate

“Prose fiction is something you build up from twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks, and you, and you alone, using your imagination,…

— Neil Gaiman

“Once in a while, when reality is too painful to bear, fiction can help us to restore the fragility of our human condition.”

— Frances Stead Stellers

“Fiction is what happens inside a writer's head. Reality takes place outside it”

— Barry A. Whittingham

“Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only way to…

— Jeanette Winterson

“A novel is an interminable effort. You think until you are weary. You write until you are ready to scream. You stop. You rest.…

— Anonymous