Art Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

I, as the writer, can be very clear that I am writing a work of heightened fiction, as opposed to documenting horrible things that…

— Bryan Fuller

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you…

— Megan McCafferty

With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff.

— Wells Tower

The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.

— Valerie Plame

You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.

— Norman Mailer

I have to pay attention to what I have felt and observed, then push these responses to an extreme while keeping the story within…

— Elizabeth Strout

When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world

— Julian Barnes

How do you document real life, when real life's getting more like fiction each day.

— Jonathan Larson

Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.

— Jean-Luc Godard

I've got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics and games, too. I'm a news…

— Karen Traviss

Most fiction comes from your experience.

— Susan Minot

Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would.

— Phil Klay