Around Quote by Ravi Subramanian

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they…

— Norman MacCaig

When you write fiction, you're like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It's funny how things come…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much…

— Edwidge Danticat

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.

— Beth Moore

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

— Karen Russell

I don't mind if what they write about me has some truth in it. Pure imagination makes me feel sad about the whole thing.

— Shaheer Sheikh

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

— Jonathan Evison

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes,…

— Jodi Picoult

Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when I would…

— Jonathan Ames

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

— Theodore Sturgeon

If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up.

— John Dufresne

The stuff I write isn't strictly autobiographical, but it's personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and people out…

— Diablo Cody