Blood Quote by Anonymous

Fiction is a branch of neurology

— J. G. Ballard

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

— Charles Stross

fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.

— Isabel Allende

Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.

— Barbara Kingsolver

In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of…

— Rohinton Mistry

“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 Tóibín

Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.

— Bonnie Friedman

Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification,

— Marilynne Robinson

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

— Nadine Gordimer

“The human condition is such that we can only stomach so much imagination. We need for things to be labeled either fiction or nonfiction.…

— J. W. Lord

Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.

— Robert J. Sawyer

However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory -not on…

— Samuel R. Delany