Create Quote by Mary Kay Andrews

Fiction creating reality.

— Paul Auster

Creating a really believable world is just insanely hard

— Warren Spector

You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.

— Alice Mattison

The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.

— Louis Theroux

The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.

— Alice Mattison

In that way, any world you create will become real. The reader makes it so. The reader becomes implicated in the creation of the…

— Pinckney Benedict

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

As writers, our job is to try to create, in a fake space, something that feels true. That's just straight-up fiction: Invent a character…

— Craig Mazin

Fiction accesses a certain kind of truth through artifice. I love to create worlds that operate on their own terms.

— Laura van den Berg

I want my fiction to seem real.

— Mary Kay Andrews

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

— Phil Klay

The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.

— Kurt Vonnegut