Fiction Quote by Mary Kay Andrews Download Open image “I want my fiction to seem real.” — Mary Kay Andrews ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Real Seem Want
I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real"… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“what people write reflects what they believe—fiction is where you go to tell or read the truth that people will stare or laugh at… — Michael Marshall Copy Share Image
You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“I can’t wrangle bees. I’m terrified of stinging insects. Literally. I break out in hives.” “Hives! That’s adorbs, right?” — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
“I went to college at Florida State, which is where I got my interior design degree, and after college, I moved down to Miami.… — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
“she felt the past come rushing back with a ferocity that nearly knocked her down. And it struck her, this was not just a… — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
As soon as I started reading, I found myself drawn to fictional character's homes as much as I was to the characters themselves. — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
“She’s got the face of an angel and the soul of a pit bull–piranha hybrid.” — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
“Don’t never depend on somebody else to take care of you, sugar. Trust in the Lord, and then you just take care of yourself,… — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
“Whole new level of bullshit, more like,” CeeJay said. “What a waste of a penis that guy is.” — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
I guess because I'm a washed-up journalist, I always do a lot of research. — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
“Losing a parent, I guess it makes you realize none of us is gonna be immortal.” — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
“The pay was crap. My boss was an idiot. And the final straw was that she wanted me to demonstrate a colon cleanse. On… — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
