Books Quote by Connie Willis

“Literature is the real life of imaginary people.”

— Stefanos Livos

“The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.”

— Franklin P. Adams

All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them…

— Allan Massie

The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.

— Edward Abbey

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

— Franklin P. Adams

“Writers need their writing; they need their imaginary worlds in order to find piece in, or make sense of, the real world.”

— Terry Brooks

“A good novel is the biography of an imaginary person--and when the biography is completed, the person is no longer imaginary; he is as…

— William Edmund Barrett

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

— Sara Sheridan

The whole world knows Dickens, his London and his characters.

— Claire Tomalin

The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a…

— John Dos Passos

“Writers just play out their fantasies in their books. They are often very unstable, tricky people, Bertie. Writers are usually very bad at real…

— Alexander McCall Smith

The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination,…

— Ronald Frame