Books Quote by Ioan Gruffudd

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

— Joanna Scott

Writing novels is so much more satisfying than writing television.

— Sarah Dunn

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

— Camille Paglia

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with…

— Paul Auster

We all create fictions to hide our pain

— Anonymous

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.

— Anonymous

We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant…

— Anonymous

The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people…

— Nick Earls

It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply.

— Vivian Gornick

It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story.

— Avi

“Whatever one may say, writing a novel is a very different thing from living one. All the same our lives are not wholly separated…

— Marcel Proust