Children's fiction is the most important fiction of all.

“I hope, that in the days, and weeks, and years to come, the question of where the dividing lines between adult and children’s fiction…

— Neil Gaiman

I think, when you are writing non-fiction, you feel there's an obligation to get it absolutely right, so all your factual details have to…

— Ronald Frame

“...But if we are to say anything important, if fiction is to stay relevant and vibrant, then we have to ask the right questions.…

— Michael Copperman

I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or something.

— Kent Haruf

There were no small brown kids as the centre of the children's fiction I grew up with.

— Konnie Huq

'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is…

— L.A. Weatherly

Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization…

— Ray Bradbury

I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.

— Dale Peck

“For so long considered a second-rate category to other writing genres, Science Fiction should be allotted its true place in literature. The reason Science…

— Joseph Duda

The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed to convince…

— Lynn Coady

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic…

— Ann Patchett

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic…

— Ann Patchett

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

— Iain Banks

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

— Theodore Sturgeon

“And since a novel has this correspondence to real life, its values are to some extent those of real life. But it is obvious…

— Virginia Woolf