Craft Quote by Orhan Pamuk

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

— Marc Levy

“Knowledge emerges only through invention and reinvention, the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry beings pursue with the world and with others.”

— Paulo Freire

“As a fiction writer I am not always sure where reality ends and non reality begins, when sane thoughts become less than sane, or…

— Kathryn Mattingly

“Certainly, as a reader, I had always discovered the deepest truths in fiction; it was through reading novels that I learned about the world,…

— Alice Hoffman

“Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the unreal to…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“...sense of reality is important in any work of fiction...”

— Stephen King

“All fiction is based on some form of reality—otherwise we would never have the inspiration or knowledge to dream up the realistic situations we…

— Rene Folsom

“If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his conscious mind…

— Flannery O'Connor

“A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what…

— Susan Sontag

“Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.”

— Aljean Harmetz

“Knowledge dissipates fear and builds character.”

— VD

“A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies…

— William Sansom