Evidence Quote by Jill Magid

Everybody's always living in fiction just as much as children, but the way our stories are faked is curtailed by all sorts of narratives…

— Claire Messud

So much of what I write in fiction is based on true stories.

— Mark Kurlansky

There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.

— Howard Jacobson

My theory for nonfiction is that nobody can be free of some kind of conceptions about whatever story they're writing. But if you can…

— George Saunders

Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much…

— Edwidge Danticat

I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

— Nicole Krauss

My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.

— Anthony Horowitz

I think one of the reasons that I like fiction versus nonfiction is that I myself can kind of disappear from the story.

— Celeste Ng

Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when I would…

— Jonathan Ames

I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.

— Danai Gurira

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.

— Wally Lamb

I really like stories, so in a way it doesn't matter for me if they are real or fiction.

— Volker Bertelmann