Forever Quote by Charles Stross

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition,…

— Ralph Ellison

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

— Charles Stross

It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply.

— Vivian Gornick

“Science fiction is about using speculative scenarios as a lens to examine the human condition.”

— Ted Chiang

I think that science fiction has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change.…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Once in a while, when reality is too painful to bear, fiction can help us to restore the fragility of our human condition.”

— Frances Stead Stellers

Science fiction is the field that explores how change can affect us, for well or ill.

— David Brin

Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.

— Bonnie Friedman

“Fiction can, and should, mimic life, with all its messes and discomfort and disquiet. Fiction should also prove just how complicated and troubled many…

— Anonymous

Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.

— David Foster Wallace

I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to…

— Richard Dawkins

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

— Flannery O'Connor