Believe Quote by Jo Beverley

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

— Peter Mullan

“American society is uncomfortable with the idea that some people’s lives are difficult past the point of sanity and that they aren’t necessarily to…

— George Saunders

Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

— Rose Wilder Lane

Real life is crazier than fiction.

— Lauren Bowles

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

Writing fiction is fundamentally an irrational act.

— Dale Peck

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.

— Anonymous

Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting.

— Francois Truffaut

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

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.

— Andrew Sean Greer

I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.

— Eleanor Catton