Books Quote by Noah Cicero

“The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.”

— Tom Wiseman

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

— Richard Wright

“For every work of fiction, the author inserts a bit of themself to make the story seem more real. For every work of nonfiction,…

— A.K. Wallace

“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.”

— Marc Levy

“I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those…

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

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

— James N. Frey

The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to…

— Aberjhani

“Fiction is what happens inside a writer's head. Reality takes place outside it”

— Barry A. Whittingham

“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

“Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader willingly or…

— Arti Honrao

“Writers need their writing; they need their imaginary worlds in order to find piece in, or make sense of, the real world.”

— Terry Brooks

“... but some say that reality is what happens inside a writer's head, and it is fiction which takes place outside it.”

— Barry A. Whittingham