Ambiguity Quote by E. L. Doctorow

Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

— Leo Tolstoy

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living…

— Vincent Canby

Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.

— Matthew Specktor

Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.

— Suzanne Curchod

It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal of good…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

Good fiction creates its own reality.

— Nora Roberts

“Good fiction is not defined by the masses, but by the tentative ear.”

— James D. Maxon

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

— Ralph Ellison

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

— Colm Toibin

Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

“Good fiction is trawling back into the past and digging up the real characters who've influenced your entire being.”

— Ken Scott

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

— Barbara Kingsolver