Books Quote by Paul Fussell

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once…

— John Hawkes

“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

“what is fiction in particular is truth in general.”

— Anonymous

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

— Richard Wright

“All fiction, whether straight or genre, whether literature or Literature, is a personal reinterpretation of its writers’ existence during the time the fiction was…

— William Gibson

“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

“This book, I believe, has turned out to be not quite fact and not quite fiction, but something in between. I wonder if it…

— Kyung-Sook Shin

“what people write reflects what they believe—fiction is where you go to tell or read the truth that people will stare or laugh at…

— Michael Marshall

“This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what has been…

— Ernest Hemingway

“What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book?”

— Julian Barnes

“... 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

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme.”

— John Hawkes