Believable Fiction Quotes

Acting is telling the truth under imaginary circumstances. I cannot think of a worse way to describe acting. Also, I'm the worst liar ever.

The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.

A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be

Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.

You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.

What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.

I love stories where the impossible appears believable, plausible and real. Maybe it's silly, but it's one of the reasons Michael Crichton's writing always appealed to me: he took outlandish ideas and made them seem completely within the realm of possibility. I remember reading "Jurassic Park" and feeling like: "Oh, yeah - no, that's totally happening right now. They're bringing back dinosaurs!"

One of the keys is, and it may sound funny, talking about characters with super powers, but one of the keys is to make your characters as realistic and believable as possible. Even if they have super powers, you say to yourself, "Well, if somebody had a super power like this, what would his life be like? Wouldn't he still maybe have to go to the dentist or wouldn't he have to worry about making a living? What about his love life?" You've got to make characters that your reader can believe exists or might exist.