Fiction that does not acknowledge this at least tacitly is not true. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet. — Vinton Cerf Copy Share Image
One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it? — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't… — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be… — Percy Lubbock Copy Share Image
Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
When I think about what fiction does morally, I'm happier thinking of a person full of multiplicities - sort of fragmented. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I think it's possible to be just a fiction writer, and I don't think that it's a luxury. Oftentimes, what fiction does… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
“What the best fiction does is make powerful affirmations of familiar truths...the trivial fiction which times filters out is that which either… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“A well-written article does not make what was written factual or something to subscribe to. Fiction does not become fact because it… — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image
The satisfaction of short fiction does not come close to the rich pleasure I get as a writer in the long deep… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Fiction does not invent out of a vacuum, but it invents; and what it invents is, first, the fabric and cadence of… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious,… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
I think if you looked at the kind of ebb and flow of supernatural fiction and horror fiction, it does seem to… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
“Don't you see, said Father, that you are confusing fiction with facts, fiction does not create facts, fiction can come from facts,… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
“Fiction does something unique in that it takes us out of our heads and puts us into other people's heads. And I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I always had a hard time with fiction. It does feel like driving a car in a clown suit. You're going somewhere,… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“The proper stuff of fiction” does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If people ever look down upon you for crying for fictional characters, you should give them a gentle, pitying look and feel… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
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