Elements Quote by Fay Weldon

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

— Lisa Joy

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

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

Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really quite shallow.

— Dale Peck

Fiction, even when it's grim and hard, is fun.

— Katherine Dunn

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

Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

— Arundhati Roy

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have…

— Ethan Canin

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

— Joseph Conrad

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

— Suzanne Curchod

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written…

— Edmund White

Fiction is a place where people can meet, where they take the time to very seriously examine and think about the experiences of other…

— Phil Klay