Deceived Quote by Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Whether you're an extra or the hero, this story is about to end. When it's done, whatever you want to be will be up…

— John Scalzi

“we accept fictions as fictions, as things that might be true in their world, if not quite in ours.”

— Thomas C. Foster

“It is the importance of this quality of generosity in fiction that requires a measure of childishness in the writer. People who have strong…

— John Gardner

“The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction.”

— Donald Miller

“The glory of fiction is in its falseness, but the impact of fiction is found in its painful reality.”

— R.W.K. Clark

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

— Neil Gaiman

“I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren't any.”

— Teri Louise Kelly

“Fiction merely allows us a glimpse of the alternative.”

— Anthony Horowitz

“We're in a strange relationship with our fiction, you see. Sometimes we fear it's taking us over, sometimes we beg to be taken over…

— Warren Ellis Planetary Vol. 2 The Fourth Man

“Most importantly, of course, we all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good…

— Daniel Kahneman

“Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!”

— William Dean Howells

“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned for the…

— Tom Rachman