Books Quote by Charles Colson

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

— Matthew Specktor

Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.

— Anita Brookner

Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.

— Suzanne Curchod

The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.

— James Kelman

Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

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

I always say writing fiction isn't something you teach. It's something you do, and only experimentation - i.e. doing it, either badly or good…

— Peter Orner

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…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.

— Andrew Sean Greer

One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting truths lie.

— Francine du Plessix Gray

The joy of great fiction is that it transports the reader to another world, where new characters live in otherwise unimaginable ways. It is…

— Neal Katyal

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