Books Quote by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.

— Gail Caldwell

Even in fiction, I feel rigorous honesty applies. It doesn't apply to facts; it applies to what I think of as not telling emotional…

— Siri Hustvedt

Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction.

— Diana Ossana

It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that…

— Madame de Stael

I'm often a little perplexed, when I read a review of a book, by the quotes that are pulled out as evidence of excellent…

— Katie Kitamura

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

When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel.

— David Bezmozgis

What fiction does is bring you closer to the essence of truth, as opposed to simply giving you the truth. And there's no knowing…

— Sarnath Banerjee

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.

— Sue Monk Kidd

Truthiness is "What I say is right, and [nothing] anyone else says could possibly be true." It's not only that I feel it to…

— Stephen Colbert

Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings…

— Edmund White

“Fiction that fails to engage an audience with the emotional intricacies of viable characters will, for many in that audience, simply alienate them with…

— Hal Duncan