Books Quote by William Edmund Barrett

The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.

— Edward Abbey

“Literature is the real life of imaginary people.”

— Stefanos Livos

“The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.”

— Franklin P. Adams

All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them…

— Allan Massie

The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.

— Milan Kundera

A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good fiction convinces…

— Laura Miller

The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a…

— John Dos Passos

“The only real people are the people who never existed, and if a novelist is base enough to go to life for his personages…

— Oscar Wilde

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

— Franklin P. Adams

“The writers we love often serve us through their comfort and example without their ever knowing it, and in this sense, they're as imaginary…

— Patricio Pron

“The only real people are the people who never existed, and if a novelist is base enough to go to life for his personages…

— Oscar Wilde

“If a writer doesn't believe his fictional characters are actually real, how can he expect the readers to?”

— Jim Power