Dreams Quote by Siri Hustvedt

“fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“Once you realize that the imagination is non-fiction, the world is yours”

— Carl Henegan

“Why might not the world WHICH CONCERNS US—be a fiction?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“... 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

“No fiction is good fiction unless it is true to life, and yet no life is worth relating unless it be a life out…

— William Gerhardie

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

— Manoj Vaz

“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

“Prose fiction is something you build up from twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks, and you, and you alone, using your imagination,…

— Neil Gaiman

“The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life…

— Henry Miller

“But aren't we all actually fictions of each other?”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“At some point you have to choose between life and fiction." The Words”

— The Words

“The best fiction is often how we interpret our own lives and what we see as our common due. It is created usually as…

— Anne Edwards