Fiction Quote by Dale Peck

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

— Theodore Sturgeon

I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life.

— Anthony Doerr

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written…

— Edmund White

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do…

— Sufjan Stevens

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

I don't write a lot of fiction.

— John Rzeznik

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic…

— Ann Patchett

I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good. And my…

— Joy Fielding

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr

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

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

— Roxane Gay

The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don't…

— Jim Woodring