Books Quote by Jeanette Winterson

“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 means never letting the pure truth get in the way of a good story.”

— Nathaniel Robert Winters

“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

“To me, fiction is a fast-track to the sort of truth with which facts interfere.”

— Sarah Terez Rosenblum

“Every good story needs a good ending. Don't write the beginning of a novel without knowing the end of it.”

— A.D.Y. Howle

“It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else’s fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.”

— Libba Bray

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

— Tom Wiseman

“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned for the…

— Tom Rachman

“A person is a novel: you don't know how it will end until the very last page. Otherwise, it wouldn't be worth reading to…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's…

— Flannery O'Connor

“Fiction allows you to go deeper into the truth. You can put anything down and you can take chances.”

— Peter Matthieson

“A person is like a novel: Up to the very last page you don't know how it's going to end. Otherwise, there'd be no…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin