Fiction Quote by Ellen Glasgow

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

— Anthony Burgess

I have a lot of theories about the beneficial effects of fiction, but I'm always trying to get away from them a little bit.

— George Saunders

without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold.

— Elizabeth Bowen

My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of the world…

— Ben Lerner

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

— Joseph Conrad

THE MAGIC AND THE DANGER OF FICTION IS THIS: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places we have…

— Neil Gaiman

Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up.

— Nancy Kress

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

— Fay Weldon

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

I think that fiction has a certain power.

— Jesmyn Ward

Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

— Tom Wolfe