Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but…

With a novel, you have the reader with you a lot longer, and you owe him a lot more. Obviously you have to have…

— Dave Barry

“This kind of fiction doesn't interest me.”

— david foster wallace

Now, I'm a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people's imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn't. Conservatives typically…

— Joel C. Rosenberg

A lot of fiction doesn't answer a question that any reasonable person would ever ask.

— Elif Batuman

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

— Warren Ellis

Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

— Leo Tolstoy

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

— Walker Percy

“Women’s fiction” doesn’t sound like anything but a slur to my ears.”

— Sheila Heti

Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.

— China Mieville

One of the primary differences for me between fiction and poetry is that fiction uses every sort of tool that poetry does but hides…

— Brian Evenson

Fiction doesn't appeal to me because it can describe physical appearances exhaustively or because it can offer access to the inner depths of an…

— Ben Lerner

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

— Jodi Picoult

You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions.

— Paul Auster

Everybody was going along thinking that it was a day like any other day, and bang, down went the Twin Towers. Changed everything. So…

— Margaret Atwood

People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong.

— Jane Jacobs