Convince Quote by Laura Miller

“The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.”

— Franklin P. Adams

“A good novel is the biography of an imaginary person--and when the biography is completed, the person is no longer imaginary; he is as…

— William Edmund Barrett

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

— Franklin P. Adams

“Literature is the real life of imaginary people.”

— Stefanos Livos

The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.

— Milan Kundera

“Fictional stories were written so that they seemed real, kind of like a well-executed lie. Fiction creates an unreal world that's better than the…

— Hiroshi Ishizaki

As so many writers know, the experience of creating an imaginary world is closer to dreaming than it is to normal, grit-your-teeth work. It's…

— David Ignatius

The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need to.

— Liane Moriarty

“For every work of fiction, the author inserts a bit of themself to make the story seem more real. For every work of nonfiction,…

— A.K. Wallace

From the viewpoint of the writer, the most significant aspect of fantasy and science fiction is that stories of these kinds are either set…

— Brian Stableford

The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.

— Edward Abbey

“Fiction writing is art. It therefore, has few mathematical or scientific limits to its evolution. The writer must always push forward, experiment, and strive…

— Ron Gavalik