Fiction Quote by Neil Gaiman

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and…

— Ayana Mathis

“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

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.

— Beth Moore

Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to…

— Dan Chaon

Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal actions, psychological…

— Tom Robbins

Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want to see…

— David Foster Wallace

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

— Jean Baudrillard

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you…

— Vikram Seth

Fiction is a place where people can meet, where they take the time to very seriously examine and think about the experiences of other…

— Phil Klay

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.

— Wally Lamb

To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong…

— Ben Dolnick

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

— Nadine Gordimer