Creativity Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

— Jean Baudrillard

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.

— Beth Moore

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call…

— Haruki Murakami

Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification,

— Marilynne Robinson

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural…

— Jean Baudrillard

Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to…

— Dan Chaon

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

— Angus Wilson

“we read fiction to satisfy a more basic need—to imagine our way into other lives, to explore characters and situations that tell us something…

— Tom Perrotta

Fiction is a place where people can meet, where they take the time to very seriously examine and think about the experiences of other…

— Phil Klay

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

— Phil Klay

“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

Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.

— Neil Gaiman