"Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic."

Fiction,

36

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic."

Exlpore more Fiction quotes

"What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage."

Stephen King, American Author

Fiction, Danger, Imagination, Truth, Wisdom

"When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately."

John C. Hawkes, American Novelist

Fiction, Writing

"Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction."

John Cheever, American Writer

Fiction,

"Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door after breakfast smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that reached nearly down to his woolly toes (neatly brushed)-Gandalf came by."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Fiction, Smoking, Fantasy, Character

"Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about."

Sanhita Baruah, Indian Writer

Fiction, Direction, Meaning, Focus, Clarity

"Are you naked?" he rasped out. Swallowing hard, she nodded."

Katie Reus, American Author

Fiction, Curiosity, Humor, Affection, Playfulness

"Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That's what fiction is: a game of pretend."

Marty Rubin, American Author

Fiction, Imagination, Storytelling, Play

"May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest."

Stephen King, American Author

Fiction, Fate, Anger, Judgment

"If it's fiction, then it better be true."

Sherman Alexie, American Writer

Fiction, Truth, Authenticity, Storytelling

"First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic."

Kathy Acker, American Activist

Fiction, First, Magic, Writing

Explore more quotes by John Le Carre

"America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember."

Madness

"Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves."

Heart

"Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news."

Truth

"There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction."

Fiction

"I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price."

Age

"Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do."

Balance

"We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another."

Lie

"Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book."

Heaven

"For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict."

Conflict

"People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others."

People