Fiction Quote by Fay Weldon

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

— Tim O'Brien

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

— Joseph Conrad

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.

— Charles Baxter

I think, like, fiction has a place to understand those things that are hardest to understand that non-fiction can't ever get at.

— Andrew Sean Greer

Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at explaining why…

— Kathleen Rooney

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

— Matthew Specktor

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes,…

— Jodi Picoult

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is…

— Margaret Atwood

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

— Albert Camus

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or…

— Dorothea Brande

I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that…

— George Saunders