Fiction Quote by Francine Rivers

Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification,

— Marilynne Robinson

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

Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don't know what's inside. You hook them with the…

— Randy Alcorn

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

Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.

— Robert J. Sawyer

I think that fiction has a certain power.

— Jesmyn Ward

Fiction is open to whoever comes in the door, as long as you come in energetically.

— George Saunders

I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.

— Gary Shteyngart

Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.

— Bonnie Friedman

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of…

— John Cheever

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

— Anthony Burgess

I think you can use fiction to get inside people's minds.

— Don Winslow