“People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about their lives, because it's difficult to conceive that there's a great imaginary life in which you can participate.” PeopleThinkingWantWritingBelieveDifficultFictionImagineEasierMemoirNovelistsImaginaryImagine ThatImaginary Life Author:Mark Leyner
“The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.” WritingCharacterFictionNovelImaginary Author:Franklin P. Adams
“This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.” HumansCharacterMightCertainLiteratureExistenceFictionDoubtFolksFairyImaginaryCastingFaerieUnwise Author:Neil Gaiman
“What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely interested in human beings, and have an eye sharp enough to see into them, and a hand clever enough to draw them as they are. The second is that he should be able to set them in imaginary situations which display the contents of their psyches effectively, and so carry his reader swiftly and pleasantly from point to point of what is called a good story.” ShouldFirstsHumansEnoughStoriesHandsSeemsEyeAbleHuman BeingsFictionSituationReaderDrawsCleverDisplayImaginaryCompetentGood StoryHallmarkPsych Author:H. L. Mencken
“America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully real that money becomes a fiction, an imaginary means to some concrete end.” ThinkingMeanRealEndsAmericaDesireFictionTalentConcreteImaginaryGreat Talent Author:Karen Russell
“A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good fiction convinces us that the imaginary is real by selecting exactly the right detail and rendering it perfectly.” WellsRealIndividualFictionRootsDetailsScalesForestsNovelistsConvinceImaginaryLeafsRenderingConvince Us Author:Laura Miller
“The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.” WorldWritingReasonFictionEasierSpendingEach DayImaginaryImaginary World Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“The satisfaction of short fiction does not come close to the rich pleasure I get as a writer in the long deep immersion in the same long work and its growing complexity. I suppose you might say I love to wallow in my characters and imaginary worlds. I love to play with the whole necklace, not just one glittering stone.” WorldLongDoePlayWholeCharacterMightPleasureFictionRichGrowingStonesSatisfactionComplexityJust OneImaginaryNecklacesImmersionImaginary WorldLong Deep Author:Vera Nazarian