“ Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human i David Foster Wallace
“ Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can write reality because there is fiction; everything we consider today to be… C. JoyBell C.
“ Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that wind… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ If something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real… Norton Juster
“ Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it. Douglas Adams
“ There's always moral instruction whether the writer inserts it deliberately or not. The least effective moral instruction in fiction is that which is consciously inserted. Partly because it won't refl… Orson Scott Card
“ The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you. In books the heroes can make as many mistakes as they like. It doesn't matter what they do, because everything works… Darren Shan
“ Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. Khaled Hosseini
“ General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else. Marvin Minsky
“ ...required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work out that way. Ted Conover
“ If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats. Richard Bach
“ Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together. Daniel Keyes
