Books Quote by Tom Wiseman Download Open image ““The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.”” — Tom Wiseman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Writing
“I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader willingly or… — Arti Honrao Copy Share Image
“Fiction is what happens inside a writer's head. Reality takes place outside it” — Barry A. Whittingham Copy Share Image
“For every work of fiction, the author inserts a bit of themself to make the story seem more real. For every work of nonfiction,… — A.K. Wallace Copy Share Image
“I use Fiction to face Reality And write sweet Stories to avoid the bitter ones.” — Talia Copy Share Image
“... 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 Copy Share Image
“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.” — James Van Pelt Copy Share Image
“The beauty of fiction is it need not be factual and the writer's imagination can travel as far from reality as he or she… — Sheldon Friedman Copy Share Image
“Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconcile, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“Fiction can be more real to the reader than reality itself because fiction is the essence of life” — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
“Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.” — Ann Marie Aguilar Copy Share Image
“what people write reflects what they believe—fiction is where you go to tell or read the truth that people will stare or laugh at… — Michael Marshall Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
