Fictional Quote by Orson Scott Card

You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.

— Alice Mattison

In that way, any world you create will become real. The reader makes it so. The reader becomes implicated in the creation of the…

— Pinckney Benedict

Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,” I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as…

— Jasper Fforde

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

— Lauren Groff

We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable.

— Mary Kay Andrews

“Writing a story about a place calls that world into existence. Sometimes, as the author, you accompany it for a while. But even as…

— Alan McCluskey

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the…

— Javier Marías

The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life…

— Henry Miller

What's fascinating to me is the way that multiple stories go into creating any world - a fictional world, but certainly the world that…

— Ruth Ozeki

Most writers are lazy intellectuals, and it's a goddamn shame because a writer with an audience has a moral responsibility to make readers think…

— Kevin Keck