All kinds Quote by Francisco Goldman

I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life.

— Anthony Doerr

No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

I get to use fiction as a way to work out my thinking and to delight readers in the process. I can't think of…

— Ken Liu

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have…

— Ethan Canin

I find it only natural for a storyteller to be interested in storytelling and, for anyone who spends the better part of his or…

— Norman Lock

I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.

— Dale Peck

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written…

— Edmund White

Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

— Etgar Keret

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters;…

— Penelope Lively

I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.

— Joan Larkin

I think it's possible to be just a fiction writer, and I don't think that it's a luxury. Oftentimes, what fiction does is approach…

— Torrey Peters