Believe Quote by Nicholson Baker

It often happens that people come to believe in their own fictions.

— Robert Rhodes James

Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when I would…

— Jonathan Ames

I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Any fiction writer who has never had his work misunderstood couldn't have written a lot. Somehow along the way you are going to run…

— Rotimi Ogunjobi

Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself…

— David Foster Wallace

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

I always had a hard time with fiction. It does feel like driving a car in a clown suit. You're going somewhere, but you're…

— Dave Eggers

I want my fiction to seem real.

— Mary Kay Andrews

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

You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only…

— Tennessee Williams

“Fiction in general holds little interest for me. Novels, in particular, arouse more suspicion than intrigue. It truly baffles me that any practitioner of…

— Dan Garfat-Pratt

I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and…

— Helen Fielding