Book Quote by Bonnie Friedman

“Fiction offers the best means of understanding people different from oneself, short of experience. Actually, fiction can be lots better than experience, because it's…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of…

— Varley O'Connor

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

— Nadine Gordimer

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to…

— Orson Scott Card

My feeling about fiction, regardless of the genre, is that it is meant to be a representation of life. I want my books to…

— Richard Laymon

“Fiction is a great combination between experience and imagination.”

— Desi Puspitasari

We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s…

— Steven Saylor

My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to the story. No one sees a…

— Anonymous

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for…

— Junot Diaz

We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s…

— Steven Saylor

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

— Karen Russell