Life Quote by Caro Clarke

“No fiction is good fiction unless it is true to life, and yet no life is worth relating unless it be a life out…

— William Gerhardie

“Good fiction is trawling back into the past and digging up the real characters who've influenced your entire being.”

— Ken Scott

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

— Clive James

“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Life might be stranger than fiction, but fiction allows many writers to more accurately portray life to their readers.”

— Jaime Buckley

It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal of good…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

“After all, every story have both good and bad in it, and life can be like that too. I guess it's what we take…

— Melissa Hill

“Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery,…

— Nicole Christie

“Fiction means never letting the pure truth get in the way of a good story.”

— Nathaniel Robert Winters

“...required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work out that…

— Ted Conover

“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not…

— Victoria Connelly

“Non-fiction is a well of plenty.”

— Nathaniel Barber