Fiction Quote by William Shakespeare

While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

— Aristotle

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

— Dirk Benedict

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Be warned. This book has no literary merit whatsoever. It it a lurid piece of nonsense, convoluted, implausible, peopled by unconvincing characters, written in…

— Jonathan Barnes

I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.

— Gary Shteyngart

“I was grotesque to the theatrical pitch, a stage miser, but I was certainly not a physical impossibility”

— H.G. Wells

This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.

— Michael Crichton

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

— Oscar Wilde

If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may…

— Ernest Hemingway

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.

— John Updike

The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.

— Alice Mattison