Book Quote by Chris Abani

Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your…

— Chris Abani

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

— Anthony Burgess

I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of…

— Octavio Paz

THE MAGIC AND THE DANGER OF FICTION IS THIS: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places we have…

— Neil Gaiman

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

— David Levithan

If there was no risk, it wouldn't be art. It wouldn't be worth making. There is risk even in a fairy tale. Fiction is…

— Chris Abani

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

— Phil Klay

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in…

— Jim Rohn

People resist and fight against things that are new that they haven't seen before, especially if they make them uncomfortable. But fiction is a…

— Gail Simone

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

— Jacques Barzun

Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when…

— Jonathan Gottschall

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who…

— Flannery O'Connor