Book Quote by Nick Earls

Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

When I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters.…

— Stephenie Meyer

I think that if you use something from you life in fiction, it metamorphosizes into something strange and different. Afterward it is hard to…

— Marge Piercy

I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.

— Paul Auster

All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can…

— Stephenie Meyer

“take details from “real life” into fiction and make them believable requires careful work: creating characters the reader can believe would do the unbelievable…

— Dorothy Allison

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets…

— Caroline B. Cooney

Writing fiction lets you be a little more emotional and unguarded, a little freer. Writing fictional characters is also really different from writing about…

— Elif Batuman

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

— Nicole Krauss

I believe that to create real-seeming characters, the writer must be willing to go on a voyage of self-exploration. It can be revealing and…

— Sara Paretsky

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

— Oscar Wilde