Creating Quote by Emma Mackey

The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.

— Alice Mattison

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

— Paul Krugman

We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable.

— Mary Kay Andrews

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

— Beth Moore

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

— Rita Mae Brown

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

— Jean Baudrillard

Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.

— David Foster Wallace

...speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what…

— Dan Simmons

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

— Frank Kermode

The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.

— Napoleon Hill

To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

— Ursula K. Le Guin