"Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction."
- Orson Scott Card
"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
"...all I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my narratives were lies."
- Rebecca Makkai
"Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together."
- Daniel Keyes
"There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever."
"Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an urgency—a chaos—, an insanity, a misrule of some dire sort which can end li..."
- Richard Ford
"I love fictional characters...they can't break your heart."
- Julia Hall
"All stories are true. But some of them never happened."
- James A. Owen
"Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself."
- Alan Moore