Fiction Quote by Kathryn Mattingly

“... but some say that reality is what happens inside a writer's head, and it is fiction which takes place outside it.”

— Barry A. Whittingham

“Fiction is what happens inside a writer's head. Reality takes place outside it”

— Barry A. Whittingham

“Fiction has to be well researched, properly conceived and logically presented. Reality needs none of the above.”

— Manoj Vaz

“Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.”

— Aljean Harmetz

“All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“All fiction is based on some form of reality—otherwise we would never have the inspiration or knowledge to dream up the realistic situations we…

— Rene Folsom

“Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader willingly or…

— Arti Honrao

“Fiction opens a window of imagination that reality closes.”

— Deborah Brodie

“The beauty of fiction is it need not be factual and the writer's imagination can travel as far from reality as he or she…

— Sheldon Friedman

“...sense of reality is important in any work of fiction...”

— Stephen King

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

— Carl Henegan

“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.”

— Slavoj Žižek