Good Fiction Quotes

24 Good Fiction quotes by 23 unique 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
Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should… — Orhan Pamuk
Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of… — Gary Shteyngart
It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great… — John Grisham

Who Wrote These Good Fiction Quotes

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