Fiction Quote by Haruki Murakami

“The most important things aren't always in the main story; sometimes the real meaning is scribbled in the margins.”

— Isabelle Rowan

“But I’m not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out for us.…

— Anthony Horowitz

“I know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all genres -…

— Sara Sheridan

“But I’m not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out for us.…

— Anthony Horowitz

“Two things can keep the common reader going, argument or story. (Both are always involved, however subtly, in good fiction.)”

— John Gardner

“Fiction allows you to go deeper into the truth. You can put anything down and you can take chances.”

— Peter Matthieson

“Everything in my novel is true, except the stuff I made up.”

— L.D.C. Fitzgerald

“Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer details.”

— Bailey Vincent

“I am not ultimately interested in writing fiction. I can't make things up. Or rather, I can only make things up about things that…

— Alison Bechdel

“In life, you will hear many fantastical and astounding things, what is important is sorting out the fact from the fiction.”

— T.B. Christensen

“fiction is both artifice and verisimilitude, and that there is nothing difficult in holding together these two possibilities.”

— James Wood

“When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something to be…

— Carl Henegan