Any Quote by Noah Baumbach

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we…

— Azar Nafisi

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

I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making…

— Julia Glass

I want my fiction to seem real.

— Mary Kay Andrews

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

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have…

— Ethan Canin

I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I read about…

— Jim Shepard

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've always liked the fact that fiction takes all these pretty unquantifiable human feelings and experiences and projects them onto the page in ways…

— Scott Bradfield

Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting.

— Francois Truffaut

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr

All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like…

— Garrison Keillor