Alive Quote by David Foster Wallace

The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being.

— Christopher Reeve

The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact..

— Ken Follett

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or…

— Dorothea Brande

The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and…

— Whitley Strieber

“The best fiction is often how we interpret our own lives and what we see as our common due. It is created usually as…

— Anne Edwards

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are…

— Richard Powers

“Our relationship with literary characters, at least to those that exercise a certain attraction over us, rests in fact on a denial. We know…

— Pierre Bayard

“we read fiction to satisfy a more basic need—to imagine our way into other lives, to explore characters and situations that tell us something…

— Tom Perrotta

It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me it often…

— Michael Helm

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

— Anne Michaels

There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction.

— Ken Follett

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to…

— Orson Scott Card