Activism Quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them.

— Lisa Joy

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

— Anthony Burgess

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

— Ezra Taft Benson

I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly…

— Ben Lerner

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

— Andre Gide

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for…

— Orson Scott Card

Many fiction writers who put the science in don't get it right.

— Kathy Reichs

“I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's…

— Flannery O'Connor

There's always been a quality to being a science-fiction reader. Usually, you're the only one in your class, or there are only one or…

— Robert J. Sawyer

“I am not a fiction reader. If I already do, I read fiction always more like the illustration of a philosophical-political thesis than a…

— Louis Tobback

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

— Suzanne Curchod

“The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.”

— Tom Wiseman