Fiction Quote by Don Winslow

“Empathy. Carlin always said it was the great value of fiction, to put us inside the minds of strangers.”

— Erika Johansen

There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writing students that one of…

— Julia Glass

I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure…

— Elia Suleiman

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think…

— Jodi Picoult

“Some times, you write fiction stories. Others, you use fiction to write your story.”

— S. Usher Evans

I get to use fiction as a way to work out my thinking and to delight readers in the process. I can't think of…

— Ken Liu

“The only things that one can use in fiction are the things that one has ceased to use in fact.”

— Oscar Wilde

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That…

— Janet Fitch

“It's safer to use fiction, which will not be taken for literal truth, but which, like Jesus' stories, can tell the truth indirectly yetpowerfully.”

— Wayne Martindale

“I use Fiction to face Reality And write dark Stories in hope to brighten my Path.”

— A. Mani

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing.

— Janet Fitch

“I’m a storyteller. I’ll work to make you believe me. Throw in some real stuff, change a few details, add the certainty of outrage.…

— Dorothy Allison