Character Quote by Eudora Welty

Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something…

— Malcolm Cowley

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

To me a story is a story...I dont even think about where it might belong until long after its written.

— Stephenie Meyer

All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.

— Orson Scott Card

Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up.

— Nancy Kress

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

— Neil Gaiman

We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.

— Edwidge Danticat

Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.

— Anonymous

Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life…

— Varley O'Connor

Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative fiction is…

— Jess Row

“Fiction is usually seen as escapist entertainment...But it's hard to reconcile the escapist theory of fiction with the deep patterns we find in the…

— Jonathan Gottschall

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

— Nadine Gordimer