Beauty Quote by Sheldon Friedman

“Fiction has to be well researched, properly conceived and logically presented. Reality needs none of the above.”

— Manoj Vaz

“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

“... but some say that reality is what happens inside a writer's head, and it is fiction which takes place outside it.”

— Barry A. Whittingham

“Fiction can be more real to the reader than reality itself because fiction is the essence of life”

— James N. Frey

“For every work of fiction, the author inserts a bit of themself to make the story seem more real. For every work of nonfiction,…

— A.K. Wallace

“The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.”

— Tom Wiseman

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

— Barry A. Whittingham

“All fiction is based on some form of reality—otherwise we would never have the inspiration or knowledge to dream up the realistic situations we…

— Rene Folsom

“Fictional stories were written so that they seemed real, kind of like a well-executed lie. Fiction creates an unreal world that's better than the…

— Hiroshi Ishizaki

“...sense of reality is important in any work of fiction...”

— Stephen King

“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.”

— James Van Pelt

“Everyone had a story he believed was worthy of a best-seller; for me, reality was rarely interesting enough to take the place of fiction.”

— Ben Mezrich