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Fiction is a place where people can meet, where they take the time to very seriously examine and think about the experiences of other…

— Phil Klay

My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of the world…

— Ben Lerner

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

Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to…

— Dan Chaon

I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that…

— George Saunders

I think in a sense seeing how films have changed me and seeing how fiction moves me more than facts in many ways, and…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.

— Valerie Plame

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you…

— Vikram Seth

Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them.

— Lisa Joy

If fiction changes things, it's usually because it's a powerful way of exploring social issues. And it helps us to understand people who are…

— Gillian Cross

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

— Angus Wilson

All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like…

— Garrison Keillor