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title: "4 Fiction Offers Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/fiction-offers-escape-but-it-also-interrogates-the-world-we-live-in/)

[Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cbd/roxane-gay-520_escape_fiction-offers-escape-but-it-also-interr_85328.png)

> [What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-self/what-fiction-offers-us-is-an-intimacy-shorn-of-the-messy/)

[Will Self](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-self/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a9/will-self-2296_age_what-fiction-offers-us-is-an-intimacy-sh_103982.png)

> [Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeaniene-frost/paranormal-fiction-offers-authors-and-readers-the-chance-to-answer/)

[Jeaniene Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeaniene-frost/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/050/jeaniene-frost-335_answer_paranormal-fiction-offers-authors-and-re_1222848.png)

> [“Fiction offers the best means of understanding people different from oneself, short of experience. Actually, fiction can be lots better than experience,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ursula-k-le-guin/fiction-offers-the-best-means-of-understanding-people-different-from/)

[Ursula K. Le Guin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ursula-k-le-guin/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c04/ursula-k-le-guin-138_fiction_fiction-offers-the-best-means-of-underst_2419076.jpg)

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