Culture Quote by Don DeLillo

Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by the road…

— Jonathan Franzen

Most fiction comes from your experience.

— Susan Minot

I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain…

— Tess Gerritsen

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot…

— Gloria Vanderbilt

Fiction is always derived from something real.

— Anonymous

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

— Edward Hirsch

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.

— Beth Moore

“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

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

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes,…

— Jodi Picoult

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call…

— Haruki Murakami

When you write fiction, you're like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It's funny how things come…

— J. Courtney Sullivan