Character Quote by Anita Brookner

Fiction is an act of revenge

— John Hawkes

Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.

— Suzanne Curchod

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for…

— Orson Scott Card

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished…

— David Baldacci

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

— Pat Barker

In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you.

— Colson Whitehead

Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the…

— David Baldacci

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is…

— Pat Barker

I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.

— Brent Weeks

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

— Fay Weldon

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

— Simone de Beauvoir

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

— Colm Toibin