Casts Quote by Libba Bray

The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.

— Varley O'Connor

People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for…

— Fran Lebowitz

“It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else’s fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.”

— Libba Bray

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

If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up.

— John Dufresne

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no…

— George Murray

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no…

— Theodore Sturgeon

When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.

— Marilyn Monroe

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

I think what people really want is fiction that in some tiny way makes their life more meaningful and makes the world seem like…

— Wells Tower

Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself…

— David Foster Wallace

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have…

— Ethan Canin