Books Quote by John Hawkes

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once…

— John Hawkes

“Unfortunately, the story wasn’t a novel, and it wasn’t fiction.”

— Aleatha Romig

“what is fiction in particular is truth in general.”

— Anonymous

“What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book?”

— Julian Barnes

“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.”

— Neil Gaiman

“...all I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my narratives were…

— Rebecca Makkai

“...novels do not begin the way you want them to, but the way they want to.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

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

— Nathaniel Robert Winters

“This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what has been…

— Ernest Hemingway

“trying to outrun the novelist’s most insidious enemy, which is doubt.”

— Stephen King

“The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction.”

— Donald Miller