Based Quote by Gloria Vanderbilt

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.

— Gloria Vanderbilt

Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work…

— Margaret Culkin Banning

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

— Jean Baudrillard

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and…

— Neil Gaiman

Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who…

— Neil Gaiman

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural…

— Jean Baudrillard

The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.

— Alice Mattison

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call…

— Haruki Murakami

In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of…

— Rohinton Mistry

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

— Hunter S. Thompson

“All fiction is based on some form of reality—otherwise we would never have the inspiration or knowledge to dream up the realistic situations we…

— Rene Folsom

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.

— Beth Moore