9-11 Quote by Lavie Tidhar

“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

“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

“I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.…

— Colm Tóibín

“fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.”

— Siri Hustvedt

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

— Aljean Harmetz

“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“What is this life? A frenzy, an illusion, A shadow, a delirium, a fiction. The greatest good's but little, and this life Is but…

— Pedro Calderón de la Barca

“I wish life were a fiction novel. Then everyone would have to do what I say.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

“I could not resist the clarity of the world in books, the incredibly satisfying way in which life became weighty and accessible. Books were…

— Frank Conroy

“Sometimes lost in a book, you forget which is the real world and which is fiction.”

— Gurnam Singh Sodhi

I think what a lot of fiction is, is the imagining of the worst so as to prepare ourselves.

— Paul Bloom

Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work…

— Margaret Culkin Banning