Anticipate Quote by Jean Baudrillard

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural…

— Jean Baudrillard

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call…

— Haruki Murakami

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.

— Beth Moore

Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work…

— Margaret Culkin Banning

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and…

— Neil Gaiman

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.

— Alice Mattison

Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to…

— Dan Chaon

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

— Charles Stross

The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.

— Napoleon Hill

Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal actions, psychological…

— Tom Robbins

Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because…

— Ruth Ozeki