Books Quote by James Wood

“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

“what people write reflects what they believe—fiction is where you go to tell or read the truth that people will stare or laugh at…

— Michael Marshall

“Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader willingly or…

— Arti Honrao

Fiction is always a utopian task, in that there's an ideal you hold in your head as you write which inevitably fails in the…

— Lauren Groff

“Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.”

— Ann Marie Aguilar

“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

“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

“Fiction is what happens inside a writer's head. Reality takes place outside it”

— Barry A. Whittingham

Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are…

— Terry Brooks

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

— Siri Hustvedt

“Ideas, of course, have a place in fiction, and any writer of fiction needs a mind. But ideas are not the best subject matter…

— Wallace Stegner

“The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.”

— Tom Wiseman