Books Quote by Jim Power

“I want either the fiction to be real or me to be fictional.”

— Andrea Závodská

“The point of stories is not that they are objectively true, but that the soul of the story is truer than reality. Those who…

— Cassandra Clare

“Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly about “character,”…

— Sōseki Natsume

“Fictional stories were written so that they seemed real, kind of like a well-executed lie. Fiction creates an unreal world that's better than the…

— Hiroshi Ishizaki

“Fiction is not fake, fiction is non-fiction in the wrong reality.”

— Sara Koochagian

“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

“If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his readers to believe it.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

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

— Tom Wiseman

“Just because they're a story doesn't mean they're not real.”

— H. M. Bouwman

“All the characters in my book are fictional, but every single one of them was inspired by someone I knew and loved who didn't…

— Sanela Ramic Jurich

“Everyone had a story he believed was worthy of a best-seller; for me, reality was rarely interesting enough to take the place of fiction.”

— Ben Mezrich

All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can…

— Stephenie Meyer