Action Quote by Eudora Welty

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living…

— Vincent Canby

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

— Barbara Kingsolver

It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal of good…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters;…

— Penelope Lively

Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.

— Matthew Specktor

A good novel is something that challenges perception, that allows you to see the world anew through a different point of view - something…

— Justin Cartwright

The joy of great fiction is that it transports the reader to another world, where new characters live in otherwise unimaginable ways. It is…

— Neal Katyal

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Good fiction creates its own reality.

— Nora Roberts

“we read fiction to satisfy a more basic need—to imagine our way into other lives, to explore characters and situations that tell us something…

— Tom Perrotta

Fiction is an improvement on life

— Charles Bukowski