Books Quote by Sara Sheridan

“As a general rule, I surmise that most fictional stories are populated by misfits, changelings, and oddities, which is what makes the writing interesting…

— Todd Crawshaw

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

— Flannery O'Connor

I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating us at…

— Lionel Shriver

More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

— Candice Millard

The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and…

— Whitley Strieber

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

— Oscar Wilde

Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a…

— Nell Freudenberger

Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality.

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

— Anthony Horowitz

“This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, rants, facts, contrivances, and incidents are either the product of the author’s questionable imagination…

— Penny Reid

“This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any…

— Shannon Hale

“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the…

— Javier Marías