Able Quote by Dani Shapiro

Our minds aren't bound by a chronological corset. When thinking and dreaming, past, present and future are mixed up. That's also possible for a…

— Gunter Grass

There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a…

— Don DeLillo

Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative fiction is…

— Jess Row

The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're coming from and what we're going to.

— Miguel Nicolelis

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a…

— Kim Edwards

As a fiction writer you train yourself to think about situations subjectively. I don't really care for narratives that are just A, B, C,…

— Oscar Hijuelos

I think fiction recues history from its confusions.

— Don DeLillo

However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory -not on…

— Samuel R. Delany

Imagination is really dependent on memory and observation, these things that we think of as part of nonfiction writing, actually.

— Elif Batuman

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material…

— Terry Brooks

If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.

— George Saunders