Consolation Quote by Don DeLillo

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

— Nadine Gordimer

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

— Patrick Rothfuss

As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality.

— Joanna Scott

Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

— Arundhati Roy

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and…

— John Cheever

Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.

— David Foster Wallace

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

— Jonathan Franzen

What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was…

— V. S. Naipaul

Fiction is about feeling, which is to say that short stories are about all of us.

— Tom Bailey

Fiction is an improvement on life

— Charles Bukowski

At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.

— Charles Baxter

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

— Karen Russell