Book Quote by Ernest Hemingway

If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may…

— Ernest Hemingway

Dogwalker is a book of fiction, with characters based on the types of people who truly exist in the world. I've seen them and…

— Arthur Bradford

“It only took Alexis a day to read a five-hundred page book. Fiction stories took her to another world where she could lose herself…

— Lindsay Chamberlin

When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a bomb. It…

— Annie Dillard

“In a book of fiction the purpose is to create, for myself, the kind of world I want and to live in while I…

— Ayn Rand

Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New…

— Terry Brooks

The Bible, I've said it before, is a beautifully written work of fiction.

— Janeane Garofalo

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

— Wilkie Collins

“I consider all things a work of fiction, even myself.”

— Nancy B. Brewer

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

— Gloria Vanderbilt

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“I'm a novelist. Anything you say can be taken down and used against you in a work of fiction.”

— Anne R. Allen