Fiction Quote by Gary Shteyngart

I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers and they are going to make a game out of it.

— Woody Allen

If you're going to do a memoir, then it's sort of at this age - in your late sixties or seventies - that you…

— Grace Coddington

Going from memoir to fiction was fantastic. I had been afraid to move away from memoir; I'd written some novel drafts, but they weren't…

— Janice Erlbaum

“The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction.”

— Donald Miller

“The idea that people can be improved by being offended will finally have to meet the idea (espoused some of the time by some…

— Wendell Berry

I think it's possible to be just a fiction writer, and I don't think that it's a luxury. Oftentimes, what fiction does is approach…

— Torrey Peters

“Fact is just fiction with different storytellers”

— Abby Slovin

Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism. It's 365…

— Anonymous

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

— Jodi Picoult

Usually, with a novel, you start with no idea what to do because your job is to create convincing characters and then they just…

— Gary Shteyngart

You want to work with good people. When you're working with good people, it frees you up. There's nothing worse, as an actor, to…

— James Badge Dale

For me one of the most important things is not feeling like you have to protect yourself if you're with a real friend.

— Rebecca Stead