Fiction Quote by Ben H. Winters

I think that fiction has a certain power.

— Jesmyn Ward

All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.

— George R. R. Martin

“Fiction gives me power.”

— Maureen A. Miller

“But fiction has the unique power of revealing something true.”

— Ali Smith

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it moves people's hearts as well…

— Ian Leslie

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in…

— J. G. Holland

That's the power of fiction, that it can take the collective and make it personal.

— Anthony Doerr

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

— Marilynne Robinson

Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the text.

— Lauren Groff