“I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is, it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.”— Alfred Hitchcock, edition.cnn.com
“Good fiction is written by people who’ve read a lot of fiction. If you want to be a writer, read a lot, and as broadly as possible.”— William Gibson, ideas.ted.com
“I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.”— Aldous Huxley, amazon.com
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”— Ursula K. Le Guin, amazon.com
“For me, at least, fiction is the only way I can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.”— John Green, youtube.com
“For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it’s there, and you just reach up and pick it. Then you have to be able to let it tell itself.”— Ursula K. Le Guin, amazon.com
“They're not looking for a story that tells them who they are. They already know who they are. They're here because they want a glimpse of who they could be.”— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com
“Love is a fiction, a fable, an ode spun by poets and drunks, a fantastical tale told across one thousand and one nights, it is the genie in the bottle, it is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, it's the lie designed to seduce you.”— Lauren Blakely, amazon.com
“It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“Life isn't a romance novel. The truth is, the reason romance novels sell so well, the reason why everyone loves them, is because no one's life is actually like that. Everyone WANTS their life to be like that.”— Meg Cabot, amazon.com
“The truth is most of us worry ourselves with things that are most likely never going to happen. Truth might be stranger than fiction, but fiction will scare us more than reality, most times.”— Kovie Biakolo, thoughtcatalog.com
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com