Death Quote by Fay Weldon

“English words made only from twenty-six characters? Are English a bit lazy or what? We have fifty thousand characters in Chinese.”

— Xiaolu Guo

“But this is the kind of thing that fiction is: it's the unlivable life, the strange room tacked onto the house, the extra moon…

— Lorrie Moore

Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's not the…

— Zadie Smith

It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who is different.

— Alice Mattison

The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.

— Valerie Plame

One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and see how…

— Ben H. Winters

Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.

— Diana Gabaldon

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you…

— Megan McCafferty

The thing is, for me, as a fiction writer, I don't think there's a finer testament to our lives than this thing that's being…

— Joshua Ferris

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

— E. L. Doctorow

“The one thing is fiction in a novel and the other thing is reality. With fiction you don't make a fuss - you can…

— Anonymous

I think that one thing fiction can offer, and must offer, is a place where someone's mind and their imagination can come to rest…

— Ben H. Winters