Like Quote by Sheila Heti

“Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader willingly or…

— Arti Honrao

“Fiction is what happens inside a writer's head. Reality takes place outside it”

— Barry A. Whittingham

“Was the dividing line between life and fiction as hazy for other people as it was for a writer?”

— Dean Koontz

...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to…

— Sarah Caudwell

The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to be minimal…

— George Saunders

I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and…

— Helen Fielding

Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the text.

— Lauren Groff

When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some order, and…

— Alice McDermott

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

— Beth Moore

“The human condition is such that we can only stomach so much imagination. We need for things to be labeled either fiction or nonfiction.…

— J. W. Lord

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.

— Wally Lamb

“When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something to be…

— Carl Henegan