Accepting Quote by Libba Bray

It often happens that people come to believe in their own fictions.

— Robert Rhodes James

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks

— Laurell K. Hamilton

fiction is founded on truth…unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

— Agatha Christie

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

— Angus Wilson

We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.

— Nic Pizzolatto

People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs,…

— Mark Leyner

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

— Rita Mae Brown

Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes…

— John McGahern

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

— Neil Gaiman

They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel.

— Kevin Kwan

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

— Tim O'Brien

One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction,…

— Scarlett Thomas