"One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper."
- Michael Cunningham
"Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream."
- John Cheever
"Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life."
- Mary Ann Shaffer
"Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.."
- Gabriel García Márquez
"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
"That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth."
- Tim O'Brien
"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."
- Jessamyn West
"There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth."
- Doris Lessing
"You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick "hard books." Ones you h..."
- John Waters
"Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth."
- Khaled Hosseini