Books Quote by Charles Bock

“The writing of fiction is a dance between truth and invention”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

— Edmund Burke

Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.

— William Zinsser

It gives me confidence to know that what I'm writing has a veracity of its own without me having to invent it. When I'm…

— Michael Morpurgo

I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds…

— Aminatta Forna

Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that.

— Louis Auchincloss

“Fiction in general holds little interest for me. Novels, in particular, arouse more suspicion than intrigue. It truly baffles me that any practitioner of…

— Dan Garfat-Pratt

It is simply much easier to infuse life, feeling, and higher truth into a novel than a non-fiction work, to find the license to…

— Jon Weisman

They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel.

— Kevin Kwan

Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth.

— Steve Bisley

The essence of a novelist is to invent things and speak the truth, at the same time.

— Jaume Cabre

Speaking as a writer, I'm not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to the inner…

— Susan Patron