Cases Quote by Elissa Schappell

In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of a serial…

— Stephen King

“Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in our heads…

— George Saunders

“Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.”

— Aljean Harmetz

“Perhaps this is the purpose of detective investigations, real and fictional -- to transform sensation, horror and grief into a puzzle, and then to…

— Kate Summerscale

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

— Charles Stross

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once…

— John Hawkes

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

— Flannery O'Connor

“Perhaps some guest editors would keep Ethel and Julius Rosenberg in their peripheral vision. But Sylvia recognized their execution as the most extreme and…

— Elizabeth Winder

“Feeding that ego by consistently printing and televising stories about the murders was assuring that there would be more murders.”

— Robert K. Ressler

“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 Tóibín

In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.

— Diane Mott Davidson

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

— Jonathan Franzen