Books Quote by Dorothy Allison

I've been in so many writing workshops where someone hands in a story, and when the other writers in the workshop are giving feedback,…

— Jesmyn Ward

Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes…

— John McGahern

Truth be told, I hear stories every day that would make you say, 'If you put that in a movie, you wouldn't believe it.'…

— Lynn Shelton

You have to do three things really well to make a successful film. You have to tell a compelling story that has a story…

— John Lasseter

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

— Nicole Krauss

“All fiction is based on some form of reality—otherwise we would never have the inspiration or knowledge to dream up the realistic situations we…

— Rene Folsom

“When fiction collides with reality, it's time to get fired up. There are great stories being generated out there by real events and people-plenty…

— Gregory S. Lamb

Any fictional story will take things from real events.

— Shoojit Sircar

“Fiction is the evidence that reality exists”

— Max W. Miller

“If a writer doesn't believe his fictional characters are actually real, how can he expect the readers to?”

— Jim Power

“FICTION is a series of unintended coincidence,confabulation,and quasi-lucid lying made plausible enough for an author and a reader to cohabitate for a secret, brief…

— J.D. Brayton

As writers, our job is to try to create, in a fake space, something that feels true. That's just straight-up fiction: Invent a character…

— Craig Mazin