All time Quote by Flannery O'Connor

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

— Matthew Specktor

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

— Ralph Ellison

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

— E. L. Doctorow

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 its own reality.

— Nora Roberts

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

— Suzanne Curchod

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

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

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

Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the…

— Charles Colson

One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting truths lie.

— Francine du Plessix Gray

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