Art Quote by Alan Moore

The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some…

— Alan Lightman

The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness.

— Josh Radnor

It's our job as fiction writers to provide a delight that nothing else can - to such a degree that people have no choice…

— Jennifer Egan

I want my art to make people look at the world in a new way. I mean, what's the point of the art of…

— John Banville

I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping…

— Eduardo Galeano

And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when…

— Jerzy Kosinski

Writing is such a strangely and radically private act, and yet its purpose is this great sense of connection and community. I mean, I…

— Cheryl Strayed

In times of trial, for inspiration, people want to look to real people rather than to fiction.

— Simon Beaufoy

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

— Lauren Groff

Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is…

— Arthur Phillips

Much like film, authors spend a fair amount of time alone in the creative process, tossing their work out into what can feel like…

— Mary Pilon