Design Quote by Mary Kittredge

“Life might be stranger than fiction, but fiction allows many writers to more accurately portray life to their readers.”

— Jaime Buckley

“This is a work of fiction.”

— Lynne Heitman

“Fiction can, and should, mimic life, with all its messes and discomfort and disquiet. Fiction should also prove just how complicated and troubled many…

— Anonymous

“fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.”

— Siri Hustvedt

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

— Michelle M. Pillow

“At some point you have to choose between life and fiction." The Words”

— The Words

“life rarely finds its exact likeness in a novel, that is hardly fiction’s purpose,”

— Katie Kitamura

“Design your life.”

— Amy Chan

“No fiction is good fiction unless it is true to life, and yet no life is worth relating unless it be a life out…

— William Gerhardie

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

— Neil Gaiman

“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.”

— Angela Young

“Fiction can be more real to the reader than reality itself because fiction is the essence of life”

— James N. Frey