Quote by Gita Mehta

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

— Donald Miller

“Fiction should always challenge what you believe in, and make you think hard about what it is to be a human being.”

— Joe Mynhardt

“Everyone now, not just writers, creates a written, published persona on a daily (hourly) basis. Artifice abounds.”

— Jill Talbot

“It seems to me that you might create any sort of character in a novel and there would be at least one person in…

— Sōseki Natsume

“I never put real people into my fiction -- I can't see the slightest point of that, when I have the alternative of inventing…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“I was one to fall for strangers, to live in fiction more than reality. I had created a perfect romantic and mysterious character for…

— Gaia B. Amman

“Fiction that fails to engage an audience with the emotional intricacies of viable characters will, for many in that audience, simply alienate them with…

— Hal Duncan

“This might sound a little nutty, but to write fiction is to live in an invented world with a set of imaginary friends.”

— April Lindner

“I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's…

— Flannery O'Connor

“If you can create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.”

— Somerset Maughn

“Fiction is nothing but non-fiction couched to conceal the identity of the writer.”

— Tapan Ghosh

“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