Books Quote by Mikhail Iossel

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

— James N. Frey

“Real life is a story too, only much more complicated...the world is a library and you'll never get to read the same book twice.”

— Chris Wooding

Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“The beauty of fiction is it need not be factual and the writer's imagination can travel as far from reality as he or she…

— Sheldon Friedman

“Most stories are based on something real.”

— Paula Weston

“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality.”

— Richard Wright

“Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's more easily…

— Dean Koontz

“Writers of literature, if they are real writers, know that their readers are confused about reality and the emotions derived from that reality and…

— Noah Cicero

“Real life is inefficient, disorganized, and sometimes haffling. It's also messy and cluttered with distractions that obscure the trajectory of story.”

— Ellen Hopkins

“Fiction has to be well researched, properly conceived and logically presented. Reality needs none of the above.”

— Manoj Vaz

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

— Jaime Buckley

“Fictional stories were written so that they seemed real, kind of like a well-executed lie. Fiction creates an unreal world that's better than the…

— Hiroshi Ishizaki