Children Quote by Deborah Eisenberg

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for…

— Orson Scott Card

Everybody's always living in fiction just as much as children, but the way our stories are faked is curtailed by all sorts of narratives…

— Claire Messud

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

— Anonymous

“All I'm saying is that there is a generation gap, and I think it revolves around this public/private thing. Our generation -- we subscribe…

— David Lodge

All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like…

— Garrison Keillor

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press…

— Joe Wilson

Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little…

— John Green

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

— Anthony Burgess

You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child's…

— Anonymous

“You know, one of the interesting things you find about writing fiction is that any fiction you write has to be political. Otherwise, it…

— Walter Mosley

My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of the world…

— Ben Lerner

For us, the playground of fiction is just as important as reality

— Ryohgo Narita