Books Quote by Theodore Sturgeon

We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable.

— Mary Kay Andrews

Fiction accesses a certain kind of truth through artifice. I love to create worlds that operate on their own terms.

— Laura van den Berg

“A novel examines not reality but existence. And existence is not what has occurred, existence is the realm of human possibilities, everything that man…

— Milan Kundera

“What if all works of fiction were alternative realities and Authors glimpsed from them”

— Justyn Simon

A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.

— Jane Austen

You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.

— Alice Mattison

I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.

— Ann Brashares

Ultimately, in my mind, that's what I'm trying to do with my fiction; I'm trying to transport my reader into a different world.

— Michael Koryta

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

From the viewpoint of the writer, the most significant aspect of fantasy and science fiction is that stories of these kinds are either set…

— Brian Stableford

The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and…

— Virginia Woolf

“To construct plausible and moving ‘other worlds’ you must draw upon the only real ‘other world’ we know, that of the spirit.”

— C.S. Lewis