Books Quote by Jill Talbot

Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing that emerges…

— Robert Coover

I usually see the word "metafiction" applied to works that draw attention to their own devices, their own artificiality, in order to mock novelistic…

— Ben Lerner

“The human condition is such that we can only stomach so much imagination. We need for things to be labeled either fiction or nonfiction.…

— J. W. Lord

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

— Ann Marie Aguilar

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

— Tom Wiseman

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

— Barry A. Whittingham

“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

“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.”

— James Van Pelt

“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

“For every work of fiction, the author inserts a bit of themself to make the story seem more real. For every work of nonfiction,…

— A.K. Wallace

Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification,

— Marilynne Robinson