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I think there's nothing more wonderful than using fiction to reflect real-world cultural ideas.

— Jesse Eisenberg

Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form.

— Lily King

Cultural concepts are one of the most fascinating things about historical fiction.

— Diana Gabaldon

I feel like handling a narrative in fiction is a wonderful way to teach stories that then open a pathway to reality and understanding.

— Amy Landecker

I think fiction recues history from its confusions.

— Don DeLillo

“Only Homo sapiens can discuss things that are not tangible, such as fantasies, legends, myths, deities, and religions. The ability to talk about fiction…

— Read trepreneur

You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at…

— A. S. Byatt

Palaeontologists use fiction all the time.

— Norman Macleod

Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.

— Joseph Conrad

I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say "Oh, I don't read much fiction," as if the history of…

— Yann Martel

We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.

— Edwidge Danticat

Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.

— Matthew Specktor