Fiction Quote by Alice Walker

Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

— Arundhati Roy

I suppose I'm pulled towards fiction because I really like the freedom it gives me.

— Uzodinma Iweala

The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.

— Cynthia Ozick

With any sci-fi fantasy storytelling, you must have rules be very clear, otherwise you lose people, like 'OK, they can fly; now they can't…

— Melissa Rosenberg

The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction.

— Philip Roth

Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.

— Salman Rushdie

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

— Anthony Burgess

Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.

— Neil Gaiman

I'm not against anything that anybody might want to try to pull off in fiction. Fiction writing has to, at least, always represent a…

— Francisco Goldman

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

“Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction.”

— Raymond A. Mar

The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the…

— Ray Bradbury