Fiction Quote by Bodhidharma

Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“I do believe that you can never know yourself let alone the person next to you let alone the person halfway across the world.…

— Nam Le

“Once you realize that the imagination is non-fiction, the world is yours”

— Carl Henegan

“Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about.”

— Sanhita Baruah

“Why not make a fiction of the mind's fictions?”

— Natasha Trethewey

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

— Galileo Galilei

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

— Walker Percy

The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and…

— Virginia Woolf

“What is imagination? I don’t believe in fiction. In my mind everything comes from a part of who a writer is.”

— Anonymous

“say, “Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it’s more…

— Dean Koontz

“Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.”

— Aljean Harmetz

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.

— Orson Scott Card