Endure Quote by Penelope Lively

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

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

The facts of life are the impossibilities of fiction.

— Jerome K. Jerome

“Fictions exist because of this fact. Because we have only one life, and our desires and fantasies demand a thousand lives. Because the abyss…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

— Amelia Barr

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

— Jessamyn West

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

— Edmund Burke

I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive as you…

— Cynthia Ozick

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

— Clive James

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

— J. G. Ballard

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

— James N. Frey

Fiction is an improvement on life

— Charles Bukowski