Books Quote by Orson Scott Card

We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s…

— Steven Saylor

We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s…

— Steven Saylor

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality…

— Michel Houellebecq

Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.

— Bonnie Friedman

Novels give you the opportunity to create a whole world. Because you create people, you make them talk... You decide who they are, whether…

— Gioconda Belli

“Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we…

— Neil Gaiman

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

— Nadine Gordimer

“Life might be stranger than fiction, but fiction allows many writers to more accurately portray life to their readers.”

— Jaime Buckley

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and…

— Ayana Mathis

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

— George Sand

Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

— Rose Wilder Lane

Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of…

— Varley O'Connor