Art Quote by Alaa Al Aswany

“Truth is the aim of story. And though we must take into account the human author’s subjectivity and personal slant, the best authors are…

— Sarah Arthur

“And yet, for a writer of fiction, part of the heart remains that of a stranger, for what we are trying to do is…

— Margaret Laurence

“A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.”

— Wally Lamb

“Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.”

— Ann Marie Aguilar

“Accurate and questioning dramatic and written narratives that expose true human character, is the necessary glue of any intelligent, enduring and compassionate society.”

— Yon Walls

Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies,…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

“In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the author’s life, but they move on from there.…

— Jane Yolen

“One must not ask for sincere autobiographies from writers. Fiction was invented precisely to give men the possibility of expressing themselves freely.”

— Lev Shestov

“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing the world through their eyes.…

— Neil Gaiman

“I think that the best fiction is directly rooted in an ability to identify and tell the psychological truth about people.”

— Alistair Cross

“The novelist might be greater possible help to us if they painted life as it is, and human feelings in their true proportion and…

— William Dean Howells

“A writer inevitably - and less directly this applies to all the arts - about contemporary events, and his impulse is to tell what…

— George Orwell