Being Quote by Eleanor Catton

My own sense is that fiction is inching its way over to join poetry on the cultural margin. It's an area of passionate concern…

— Matthew Specktor

I really don't know enough about the structure of fiction.

— Conrad Aiken

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material…

— Terry Brooks

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes,…

— Jodi Picoult

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

The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to be minimal…

— George Saunders

In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's…

— Ben Marcus

Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and…

— Annie Dillard

Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want to see…

— David Foster Wallace

I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for…

— Junot Diaz

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

Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.

— Neil Gaiman