Because Quote by Haruki Murakami

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

— Jean Baudrillard

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

— Beth Moore

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

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

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Imagination is really dependent on memory and observation, these things that we think of as part of nonfiction writing, actually.

— Elif Batuman

When we talk about novels, we don't often talk about imagination. Why not? Does it seem too first grade? In reviews, you read about…

— Robin Sloan

The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.

— Napoleon Hill

Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to…

— Dan Chaon

I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain…

— Tess Gerritsen

We're completely confused about the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction. To me, the moment you compose, you're fictionalising; the moment you remember, you're dreaming.…

— David Shields

With non-fiction, there is the struggle to be accurate. With fiction, it is a bit different: the desire to let imagination take you to…

— Amitava Kumar