Character Quote by Diane Arbus

There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.

— Howard Jacobson

I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations…

— Lynn Nottage

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with…

— Paul Auster

I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

— Nicole Krauss

For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I want to tell authentic, real stories with real characters.

— Adepero Oduye

I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.

— Paul Auster

There are millions of stories in the world, and several hundred of them good ones.

— Chauncey Depew

A story is built on characters and reasons.

— Steven Amsterdam

So much of what I write in fiction is based on true stories.

— Mark Kurlansky

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

— S. E. Hinton

Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world

— Brent Spiner