Good Fiction Quotes

24 quotes by 23 authors

• The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble… — Mark Twain
• All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought… — Rebecca West
• I don't think there is enough respect in general for the time it takes to write consistently good fiction. Too many people think they will… — Tananarive Due
• Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades. — Diana Gabaldon
• The difference between me and you is that I do good fiction. — Tom Clancy
• The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind… — Flannery O'Connor
• Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger… — Jerry B. Jenkins
• Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our… — Vincent Canby
• Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending in mind before… — Tom Robbins
• Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few… — Nell Freudenberger
• For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness. — Marian Keyes
• Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by. — Ralph Ellison
• Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life. — Barbara Kingsolver
• I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens. — Tom Peters
• In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and… — David Foster Wallace
• Good fiction creates its own reality. — Nora Roberts
• I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses… — Jim Harrison
• It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction. — Jonathan Franzen
• It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal of good material… — Wendelin Van Draanen
• The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity. — E L Doctorow

Who Wrote These Good Fiction Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 24 Good Fiction Quotes as follows:

• 1 Good Fiction Quote by Flannery O'Connor
• 1 Good Fiction Quote by Jerry B. Jenkins
• 1 Good Fiction Quote by Vincent Canby
• 1 Good Fiction Quote by Tom Robbins
• 1 Good Fiction Quote by Nell Freudenberger
• 1 Good Fiction Quote by Marian Keyes
• 1 Good Fiction Quote by Ralph Ellison
• 1 Good Fiction Quote by Barbara Kingsolver
• 1 Good Fiction Quote by Tom Peters
• 1 Good Fiction Quote by David Foster Wallace
• 1 Good Fiction Quote by Nora Roberts
• 1 Good Fiction Quote by Jim Harrison
• 1 Good Fiction Quote by Jonathan Franzen
• 1 Good Fiction Quote by Wendelin Van Draanen
• 1 Good Fiction Quote by E L Doctorow
• 1 Good Fiction Quote by Orhan Pamuk
• 1 Good Fiction Quote by Gary Shteyngart
• 1 Good Fiction Quote by John Grisham
• 1 Good Fiction Quote by Mark Twain
• 1 Good Fiction Quote by Rebecca West
• 1 Good Fiction Quote by Tananarive Due
• 1 Good Fiction Quote by Diana Gabaldon
• 1 Good Fiction Quote by Tom Clancy