Books Quote by Haruki Murakami

“To my mind, the most important thing in any form of fiction is the human element, but only if it takes us beyond the…

— Graham Worthington

“But fiction has the unique power of revealing something true.”

— Ali Smith

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once…

— John Hawkes

“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

“we read fiction to satisfy a more basic need—to imagine our way into other lives, to explore characters and situations that tell us something…

— Tom Perrotta

“Fiction has to be well researched, properly conceived and logically presented. Reality needs none of the above.”

— Manoj Vaz

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes,…

— Jodi Picoult

Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at explaining why…

— Kathleen Rooney

“The best fiction is often how we interpret our own lives and what we see as our common due. It is created usually as…

— Anne Edwards

“The human condition is such that we can only stomach so much imagination. We need for things to be labeled either fiction or nonfiction.…

— J. W. Lord

“Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.”

— Aljean Harmetz

“The beauty of fiction is it need not be factual and the writer's imagination can travel as far from reality as he or she…

— Sheldon Friedman