Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and…

When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some order, and…

— Alice McDermott

Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come to the…

— Jonathan Franzen

When everything does seem out of control, writing fiction is a way I can order that chaos and restore some sort of meaning. I…

— Miriam Toews

I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story.

— David Ignatius

“Under fun’s new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don’t want to see…

— David Foster Wallace

Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want to see…

— David Foster Wallace

“Pursuing your purpose in life, goals and dreams is important but making room for pleasure and hobbies is also necessary. It’s in those moments…

— Ardiana Cohn

“I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an escape from…

— Neil Gaiman

Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances!

— Sheila Heti

I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.

— Lorin Stein

“Poetry is a way of coming to know the realness of things; fiction is a way of coming to know the world of relationships;…

— Kelly Cherry

For me, it's a way to find a fiction within a fiction. To find a way to uncover that blunder within the "lie," because…

— Sergio Chejfec

“Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or comforting. I think they should…

— Edna O'Brien

I've always liked science fiction as a way of commenting on ourselves and it's wrong that it is seen as less valid than other…

— Richard Herring

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

— Nadine Gordimer