Fiction Quote by Flannery O'Connor

“... but some say that reality is what happens inside a writer's head, and it is fiction which takes place outside it.”

— Barry A. Whittingham

“Just because I'm a writer doesn't mean that my personal experiences are embellished. Every life has a story.”

— Terry a O'Neal

“Fiction is a great combination between experience and imagination.”

— Desi Puspitasari

“Fiction is what happens inside a writer's head. Reality takes place outside it”

— Barry A. Whittingham

“No matter how hard you try to create a story that's completely fictional, parts of your own experience are bound to surface.”

— Hiroshi Ishizaki

“The beauty of fiction is it need not be factual and the writer's imagination can travel as far from reality as he or she…

— Sheldon Friedman

“I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture…

— H Raven Rose

“I know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all genres -…

— Sara Sheridan

“But it’s hard to say where experience ends and imagination begins. The story is by no means a true story. But the feelings in…

— Arundhati Roy

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once…

— John Hawkes

“For my purpose, the non-fiction form of abstract knowledge doesn’t interest me; the final, applied form of fiction, of story, does.”

— Ayn Rand

“...There is no such thing as a story. The words on paper are only instructions used by each reader to create a story. The…

— Damon Knight