Fiction Quote by Ted Conover

“The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction.”

— Donald Miller

“But I’m not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out for us.…

— Anthony Horowitz

“But I’m not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out for us.…

— Anthony Horowitz

“Good fiction is life with all the boring bits taken out, not with all the hardship taken out.”

— Caro Clarke

“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.”

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Siri Hustvedt

“Good fiction is trawling back into the past and digging up the real characters who've influenced your entire being.”

— Ken Scott

“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned for the…

— Tom Rachman

“Most importantly, of course, we all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good…

— Daniel Kahneman

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

— The Words

“Keeping up the fiction. You have to keep it up, sometimes, no matter how you feel.”

— Stephen King

“In my life I haven’t done anything worth writing about, but that’s OK. That’s why I write fiction.”

— Jarod Kintz