I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I…

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing.

— Janet Fitch

I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one scene and say, 'Oh, this is exactly…

— Cecily von Ziegesar

I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints…

— Steven Pinker

“ … The best pieces in [Queeries] - such as … Raymond John Woolfrey’s “Pages from My Window: Red Geraniums” - are more traditional…

— John Woolfrey

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer…

— Rachel Kushner

“Some times, you write fiction stories. Others, you use fiction to write your story.”

— S. Usher Evans

I get to use fiction as a way to work out my thinking and to delight readers in the process. I can't think of…

— Ken Liu

“The only things that one can use in fiction are the things that one has ceased to use in fact.”

— Oscar Wilde

“It's safer to use fiction, which will not be taken for literal truth, but which, like Jesus' stories, can tell the truth indirectly yetpowerfully.”

— Wayne Martindale

“I use Fiction to face Reality And write dark Stories in hope to brighten my Path.”

— A. Mani

I think you can use fiction to get inside people's minds.

— Don Winslow

“I’m a storyteller. I’ll work to make you believe me. Throw in some real stuff, change a few details, add the certainty of outrage.…

— Dorothy Allison

“I use Fiction to face Reality And write sweet Stories to avoid the bitter ones.”

— Talia

Palaeontologists use fiction all the time.

— Norman Macleod

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think…

— Jodi Picoult