Human condition Quote by Frances Stead Stellers

“Fiction can, and should, mimic life, with all its messes and discomfort and disquiet. Fiction should also prove just how complicated and troubled many…

— Anonymous

“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Fiction, however, sometimes ensures disappointment with reality”

— Miguel Syjuco

“The glory of fiction is in its falseness, but the impact of fiction is found in its painful reality.”

— R.W.K. Clark

“Fiction should always challenge what you believe in, and make you think hard about what it is to be a human being.”

— Joe Mynhardt

As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality.

— Joanna Scott

“people are so used to fictions that reality is difficult to react to”

— Sissel Tolaas

“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing the world through their eyes.…

— Neil Gaiman

“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate of all…

— Joseph Conrad

It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply.

— Vivian Gornick

“I use Fiction to face Reality And write sweet Stories to avoid the bitter ones.”

— Talia

“There is a moment, in all my studying of movies and scripts, that I’d realized something elemental about human beings and why I’d been…

— C.J. Roberts