Am Quote by Russell Smith

I'm interested in psychic phenomena, I'm interested in things that are happening invisibly beneath the surface.

— Allan Moyle

The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.

— Raymond Carver

The fiction I'm most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.

— Raymond Carver

It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three dimensional space.

— Don DeLillo

I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels,…

— John Darnielle

“Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.”

— Aljean Harmetz

“FICTION is a series of unintended coincidence,confabulation,and quasi-lucid lying made plausible enough for an author and a reader to cohabitate for a secret, brief…

— J.D. Brayton

I want my fiction to seem real.

— Mary Kay Andrews

Realism: the wealth of detail guarantees the truth of the tale.

— Mason Cooley

I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath…

— Christopher Rice

I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.

— Anonymous

“The illusion of depth in a character is created simply by withholding information from an audience. A character will seem complex and intriguing only…

— Eleanor Catton