Blow Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

— Paul Auster

“No fiction is good fiction unless it is true to life, and yet no life is worth relating unless it be a life out…

— William Gerhardie

Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.

— Ellen Glasgow

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

— Neil Gaiman

“fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.”

— Siri Hustvedt

Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.

— Paul Theroux

the days of our lives vanish utterly, more insubstantial than if they had been invented. Fiction can seem more enduring than reality.

— Penelope Lively

Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.

— Joseph Conrad

“Fiction is a mix of reality, the interpretation of that reality and a lot of "what if".”

— Jim Sellers

Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.

— Jasper Fforde

“Why might not the world WHICH CONCERNS US—be a fiction?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Nadine Gordimer