Company Quote by Fernando Pessoa

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

— Wally Lamb

When I was a school kid I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing, I would make my own comics…

— Marcel Dzama

To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry.

— Will Smith

I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction.

— Joel Edgerton

I wrote six nonfiction books before getting into narrative fiction with 'Robopocalypse,' including 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising.' My goal all along was…

— Daniel H. Wilson

Writing fiction is the 'job' I try to keep at the center of things. The movie stuff has been a wonderful accident, though not…

— Jonathan Raymond

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.

— Michael Morpurgo

I love fiction's ability to allow me to inhabit a wholly different life.

— Rumaan Alam

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people…

— Nick Earls

All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's…

— Paul Auster