Able Quote by Heather O'Neill

As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.

— Andrew Bacevich

I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction.

— Joel Edgerton

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

— Abbas Kiarostami

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

— Danielle Trussoni

I had worked in fiction a lot before I started making documentaries, but when I was around 32 or 33-years-old I suddenly got so…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Fiction was a massive, massive part of my formative years, far more so than television ever was, and I always hoped that my future…

— Steve Backshall

Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would.

— Phil Klay

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written…

— Edmund White

I had always been wary of doing any autobiographical movies, truly feeling at home with fiction.

— Peter Weir

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you…

— Megan McCafferty

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

— Jonathan Evison