Books Quote by John Gardner

“A story happens when two equally appealing forces, or characters, or ideas try to occupy the same place at the same time, and they're…

— Amy Hempel

“and people could only make sense of complicated matters through stories. Likewise”

— Neal Stephenson

“fiction is both artifice and verisimilitude, and that there is nothing difficult in holding together these two possibilities.”

— James Wood

“One person's fact is another person's fiction.”

— Shail Mohan

“Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only way to…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Sometimes all a story needed was one or two people to read or listen to it to make it matter.”

— Adam Langer

“Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction—so we are told. Therefore”

— Virginia Woolf

“A fact is interesting, an idea is important, but only a story, a good argument, a well-crafted narrative is amazing, never to be forgotten.”

— Kevin Kelly

“Fiction means never letting the pure truth get in the way of a good story.”

— Nathaniel Robert Winters

“But I’m not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out for us.…

— Anthony Horowitz

“I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction…

— E.M. Forster

“Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction — so we are told.”

— Virginia Wolff