Books Quote by Thomas C. Foster

“Everything in my novel is true, except the stuff I made up.”

— L.D.C. Fitzgerald

“The people in books become more real to you than any one in actual life.”

— Christopher Morley

“If a book is made up of things that are hard to believe, then we were like something out of a book.”

— Brock Clarke

“The ugly fact is books are made out of books, the novel depends for its life on the novels that have been written.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“When the landscape of real life gets ugly, we can pick up a book of fantasy and find a beautiful world, all green and…

— Dan Skinner

“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

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

— Sara Sheridan

“A life of fiction based on fact”

— Anonymous

“This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what has been…

— Ernest Hemingway

“You know that saying "you couldn't make it up"? It's complete nonsense, of COURSE you could make it up. Otherwise how else do authors…

— Ray Daley

“This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and…

— Chanda Hahn

“You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they…

— Sara Sheridan