Long Quote by Rosa Montero

If reality is as equally valuable as fiction, then you should just chalk up the parts of the past you don’t need to your…

— Ryohgo Narita

There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I…

— Isabel Allende

I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure…

— Elia Suleiman

In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of…

— Rohinton Mistry

I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things.

— Wim Wenders

When I look back at my life and think about what really happened, my memory is obscured by the stories I've created out of…

— Scott Spencer

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

— Tom Clancy

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

— Beth Moore

A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.

— John Irving

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 view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on…

— Tao Lin

A lot of things that I write about have happened to people around me, if not necessarily to me or in the organizations I've…

— Ravi Subramanian