Creating Fiction Quotes

“The writer asks himself, would A really cause B and not C, etc, and he creates what seems , at least by the test of his own imagination and experience of the world an inevitable development of story. Inevitability does not depend, of course, on realism. Some or all characters may be fabulous––dragons, griffins, Achilles' talking horses––but once a character is established for a creature, the creature must act in accord with it.”
― John Gardner, On Morale Fiction