Bureaucracy Quote by Margaret Atwood

As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of…

— Lawrence Block

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

— Sara Sheridan

I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making…

— Julia Glass

I've never written a fiction before about real people. . . . I read everything that I could find by people who met them…

— Michael Frayn

More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

— Candice Millard

All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them…

— Allan Massie

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough.

— Ingrid Bengis

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

— Doris Lessing

The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead…

— Wallace Stegner

I can remember somebody once saying to me that they thought my life must be less real than these other people that they were…

— Ronald Frame

In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications…

— John Updike