Distance Quote by David Means

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

— Jonathan Evison

The magic of fiction seems to be the more specific you are, the more universal you end up becoming.

— Shyam Selvadurai

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

— Karen Russell

The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and…

— Whitley Strieber

my experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I find there.

— Marion Dane Bauer

My fiction is only just over the horizon. I present a world that's different but it's familiar enough that it freaks people out a…

— Daniel Suarez

All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's…

— Paul Auster

One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real…

— Joanne Harris

Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing - between two fictions.

— Emile M. Cioran

Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach…

— Alex Berenson

Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.

— Neil Gaiman

I try not to push characters too close to myself because they get harder to write, but as a writer, you try to find…

— Tom King