Books Quote by Jaime Buckley

“Fiction can, and should, mimic life, with all its messes and discomfort and disquiet. Fiction should also prove just how complicated and troubled many…

— Anonymous

“I wish life were a fiction novel. Then everyone would have to do what I say.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

“life rarely finds its exact likeness in a novel, that is hardly fiction’s purpose,”

— Katie Kitamura

“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not…

— Victoria Connelly

“Fiction can be more real to the reader than reality itself because fiction is the essence of life”

— James N. Frey

“No fiction is good fiction unless it is true to life, and yet no life is worth relating unless it be a life out…

— William Gerhardie

“Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.”

— Frederic Raphael

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

— Neil Gaiman

“fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“Life's much more fun if you pretend it's fiction.”

— Jamie Delano

“At some point you have to choose between life and fiction." The Words”

— The Words

“Fiction is life by design.”

— Mary Kittredge