Fiction Quote by Curtis Sittenfeld

One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

— Fay Weldon

I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be…

— Diane Setterfield

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.

— Gail Carson Levine

I think, like, fiction has a place to understand those things that are hardest to understand that non-fiction can't ever get at.

— Andrew Sean Greer

Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood,don't write fiction.

— Mary Gaitskill

Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.

— Salman Rushdie

Because reading is a way of putting yourself in someone else's experience, especially reading fiction.

— Pete Buttigieg

Every fiction writer writes around the thing they will never say. Thats what fiction writers do

— Anonymous

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

— John Updike

Most fiction comes from your experience.

— Susan Minot