Create Quote by Julia Glass

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

Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe.

— Shirley Temple

I want my fiction to seem real.

— Mary Kay Andrews

I believe any fiction writer is inspired by real life.

— Ravi Subramanian

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any…

— Lou Reed

My work is always based on reality. I'm not an artist that creates works of fiction. I'm not an artist who is in my…

— Alfredo Jaar

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

— Danai Gurira

...speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what…

— Dan Simmons

“take details from “real life” into fiction and make them believable requires careful work: creating characters the reader can believe would do the unbelievable…

— Dorothy Allison

To this day, I have people I might meet who will make assumptions about my life based on fictional elements of 'The Squid And…

— Noah Baumbach

We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable.

— Mary Kay Andrews

I have many characters inspired from real life.

— Vivek Agnihotri