Books Quote by John Darnielle

I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters,…

— Eric Jerome Dickey

I don't know any writer of fiction who enjoys trying to point out or dissect whatever they produced with strangers and let them go…

— Noah Baumbach

This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I think you can use fiction to get inside people's minds.

— Don Winslow

To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake, and if anything I've always…

— Steve Erickson

I want my fiction to seem real.

— Mary Kay Andrews

I juxtapose and slice up reality and fiction quite easily. I'm aware that it is up for grabs and a powerful tool to explain…

— Wangechi Mutu

Like all novelists, I'm interested in the filters between reality and the imagination.

— Hisham Matar

Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.

— Anil Kapoor

We have to be able to use our imaginations to make the character's experiences real to us.

— Elizabeth Marvel

As writers, our job is to try to create, in a fake space, something that feels true. That's just straight-up fiction: Invent a character…

— Craig Mazin

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

— Danai Gurira