Action Quote by Barry Eisler

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have…

— Ethan Canin

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material…

— Terry Brooks

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

— Anne Michaels

...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to…

— Sarah Caudwell

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

Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want to see…

— David Foster Wallace

People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.

— Will Self

The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and…

— Whitley Strieber

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes,…

— Jodi Picoult

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

— Phil Klay

I think that fiction has a certain power.

— Jesmyn Ward