Control Quote by Wangechi Mutu

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control…

— Philip K. Dick

I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Fiction creating reality.

— Paul Auster

There’s no remaking reality... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There’s no other way.

— Philip Roth

Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the text.

— Lauren Groff

If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.

— Diane Arbus

What's fascinating to me is the way that multiple stories go into creating any world - a fictional world, but certainly the world that…

— Ruth Ozeki

That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?

— Yann Martel

I'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you can learn to do that well…

— Robert J. Sawyer

For us, the playground of fiction is just as important as reality

— Ryohgo Narita

I always figure there are novels and short stories, and in those, I'm God. No one tells me what to do. I don't have…

— Neil Gaiman

Reality is in the business of killing off fiction.

— Will Christopher Baer