Books Quote by Dan Ahearn

“Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconcile, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

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

— Tom Wiseman

“I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those…

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

— Alice Hoffman

“Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort.”

— Amaya Ellman

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material…

— Terry Brooks

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and…

— Neil Gaiman

“All fiction, whether straight or genre, whether literature or Literature, is a personal reinterpretation of its writers’ existence during the time the fiction was…

— William Gibson

“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

For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory…

— Anonymous

“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

“This book, I believe, has turned out to be not quite fact and not quite fiction, but something in between. I wonder if it…

— Kyung-Sook Shin