Brain Quote by Isabel Allende

I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure…

— Elia Suleiman

In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of…

— Rohinton Mistry

Reality and fiction are really mixed up. The frontier between reality and fiction is tremendously porous and slippery. And in fact, when I remember…

— Rosa Montero

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

— Elif Batuman

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.

— Haruki Murakami

Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“A memory is its own thing each time it's recalled. It's not absolute. Stories based on actual events often share more with fiction than…

— Iain Reid

When I write something, I can't remember in the end if this is a memory or if it's not - I'm talking about fiction.…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

Anything processed by memory is fiction.

— David Shields

Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.

— Chelsea Cain

A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.

— John Irving

All memory is fiction.

— Kwame Dawes