Writing Quote by Philip K. Dick

“Fictional stories were written so that they seemed real, kind of like a well-executed lie. Fiction creates an unreal world that's better than the…

— Hiroshi Ishizaki

“I am a writer and things which don't happen in real world, happen in my world.”

— Amay Saxena

“Writers need their writing; they need their imaginary worlds in order to find piece in, or make sense of, the real world.”

— Terry Brooks

“The rEaL wOrLd is but a fictional place where those who have narrow minds and shallow imagination compile their oppressive ideas of what rEaLiTy…

— Khayri R.R. Woulfe

“Once you realize that the imagination is non-fiction, the world is yours”

— Carl Henegan

“If a writer doesn't believe his fictional characters are actually real, how can he expect the readers to?”

— Jim Power

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world…

— Philip K. Dick

“I think that a writer should observe the real world before imagining a non-existent one.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

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

— James N. Frey

“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

“This might sound a little nutty, but to write fiction is to live in an invented world with a set of imaginary friends.”

— April Lindner

“Most stories are based on something real.”

— Paula Weston