Ends Quote by Junot Diaz

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

— Mary Kay Andrews

Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate…

— Neil Gaiman

All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like…

— Garrison Keillor

You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.

— Alice Mattison

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

— Lauren Groff

...The very word 'fiction' implies another world, literally a different place, whereas no one claims that a dedicated sportsman is escaping his life, or…

— Russell T Davies

“Once you realize that the imagination is non-fiction, the world is yours”

— Carl Henegan

Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.

— Don DeLillo

Fiction accesses a certain kind of truth through artifice. I love to create worlds that operate on their own terms.

— Laura van den Berg

Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.

— Haruki Murakami

Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to come out.…

— William Gibson

So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a…

— James Cameron