Inc Quote by Gregory S. Lamb

“The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.”

— Tom Wiseman

“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

“But stories are just tools. They should not become our goals or our yardsticks. When we forget that they are mere fiction, we lose…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“I use Fiction to face Reality And write sweet Stories to avoid the bitter ones.”

— Talia

“The glory of fiction is in its falseness, but the impact of fiction is found in its painful reality.”

— R.W.K. Clark

“Fictional stories were written so that they seemed real, kind of like a well-executed lie. Fiction creates an unreal world that's better than the…

— Hiroshi Ishizaki

“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it…

— Neil Gaiman

“Everyone had a story he believed was worthy of a best-seller; for me, reality was rarely interesting enough to take the place of fiction.”

— Ben Mezrich

As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality.

— Joanna Scott

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

— Barry A. Whittingham

“For every work of fiction, the author inserts a bit of themself to make the story seem more real. For every work of nonfiction,…

— A.K. Wallace

“Some fictions become fixtures in the real city. Their stories are so powerful that they leap off the page on to the streets, irreversibly…

— Henry Eliot