Behave Quote by Agnes Repplier

I've been mocked a lot. I've been made fun of, you know, of the standards that I keep out, and that I hold out…

— Josh Turner

Being serious is serious business in fiction. It's commercial or hoi polloi in fiction to be funny. It's too accessible to the great unwashed.

— Joshua Ferris

The business of fiction is the study of the human condition, and gender is something that many humans are obsessed with, thus making it…

— Charles Stross

Can fiction teach us? Absolutely. Fiction has the power to illustrate place, era, and atmosphere in vivid detail. But it is not Anthropology for…

— Celeste Ng

I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction, I also teach all kind of not-so-traditional fiction. And since I'm such a…

— Heidi Julavits

I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction.

— Heidi Julavits

“The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.”

— Oakley Hall

John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of our finest…

— Ron Rash

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect…

— Goldwin Smith

You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.

— Ian Mcewan

The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that…

— Isaac Asimov

Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and…

— E. L. Doctorow