Behinds Quote by Jess Walter

I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for…

— Junot Diaz

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

— Angus Wilson

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes,…

— Jodi Picoult

I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography.

— Garth Greenwell

The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.

— James Kelman

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people…

— Nick Earls

It's fun to be able to invent fiction, but I like real stories, better.

— Alisyn Camerota

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

— Colm Toibin

It gives me confidence to know that what I'm writing has a veracity of its own without me having to invent it. When I'm…

— Michael Morpurgo

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

— Frank Kermode

A lot of things that I write about have happened to people around me, if not necessarily to me or in the organizations I've…

— Ravi Subramanian

I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true…

— Errol Morris