Answers Quote by Charles Bock

Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the perfect answer.

— Gillian Cross

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

— Richard Hughes

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

— Theodore Sturgeon

Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

— Arundhati Roy

Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.

— Saul Steinberg

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

— Jonathan Franzen

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

— Tim O'Brien

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

— Valerie Plame

I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain…

— Tess Gerritsen

Fiction allows for moral questioning, but through the back door. Personally, I like books that make you think - books you're still wondering about…

— Jodi Picoult

Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.

— Charlaine Harris

I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life.

— Anthony Doerr