Fiction Quote by Mario Vargas Llosa

“Real life doesn't grant us many of the more than useful possibilities people can come out with in fiction.”

— Camilo Gomes Jr

“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in our heads…

— George Saunders

“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate of all…

— Joseph Conrad

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

— Michelle M. Pillow

“This might sound a little nutty, but to write fiction is to live in an invented world with a set of imaginary friends.”

— April Lindner

“Write, live what happens; Life is too sacred for invention – though we may lie about it sometimes, to heighten it.”

— Christopher Isherwood

“Sometimes life kicks you in the teeth with an irony that a self-respecting fiction writer would be ashamed to invent.”

— David Morrell

“Fictions enable us to cooperate better.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“How readily and thinly we procure these fictional selves, deceiving the world and what we might have become if only we hadn't got in…

— Hisham Matar

“All lives are interesting.One of the tasks of fiction, is to prove it.”

— A.D. Miller

“We must find ourselves in fiction”

— Anonymous