Experience Quote by Desi Puspitasari

“Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do.”

— Eveli Acosta

“What is imagination? I don’t believe in fiction. In my mind everything comes from a part of who a writer is.”

— Anonymous

“Fiction opens a window of imagination that reality closes.”

— Deborah Brodie

“Fiction offers the best means of understanding people different from oneself, short of experience. Actually, fiction can be lots better than experience, because it's…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“The beauty of fiction is it need not be factual and the writer's imagination can travel as far from reality as he or she…

— Sheldon Friedman

“I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.…

— Colm Tóibín

“[T]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities.”

— Amitav Ghosh

“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.”

— James Van Pelt

“Once you realize that the imagination is non-fiction, the world is yours”

— Carl Henegan

“fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“Experience, contrary to common belief, is mostly imagination.”

— Ruth Benedict

Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.

— Bonnie Friedman