Becoming Quote by Shyam Selvadurai

There's a huge distance between who I am as a regular person and what takes place in my fiction.

— David Means

my experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I find there.

— Marion Dane Bauer

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

— Jonathan Evison

Most fiction comes from your experience.

— Susan Minot

I love fiction's ability to allow me to inhabit a wholly different life.

— Rumaan Alam

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

— Danielle Trussoni

My fiction is only just over the horizon. I present a world that's different but it's familiar enough that it freaks people out a…

— Daniel Suarez

Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.

— Robert J. Sawyer

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

— Angus Wilson

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

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

— Hunter S. Thompson

All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.

— Barry Unsworth