Characters Quote by Carl Henegan

That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better in fiction.

— Marcy Dermansky

“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

When you're writing fiction, you're in every character 'cause you can't help it.

— Marcia Clark

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

— Ann Marie Aguilar

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

— Tom Wiseman

“Fiction is very, very important," he said, his voice is rising. "Storytelling is how people learn. You get people to understand new cultures and…

— Kristine Grayson

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

— Barry A. Whittingham

“we read fiction to satisfy a more basic need—to imagine our way into other lives, to explore characters and situations that tell us something…

— Tom Perrotta

“I know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all genres -…

— Sara Sheridan

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once…

— John Hawkes

“what people write reflects what they believe—fiction is where you go to tell or read the truth that people will stare or laugh at…

— Michael Marshall

“We all fictionalize ourselves in the process of creating a story out of the raw materials of our life. For some it is a…

— Neil McCormick