Dream 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. But a lot…

— 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

Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more…

— Thomas Hood

The-Dream is a fantasy, but without fiction.

— The-Dream

A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking…

— Gertrude Stein

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

— Aimee Bender

“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

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 the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

— Charles Stross

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

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

— Jean Baudrillard

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