Absolute freedom Quote by Francisco Goldman

I suppose I'm pulled towards fiction because I really like the freedom it gives me.

— Uzodinma Iweala

I completely identify with finding freedom in boundaries. That's why I tend to have more freedom when I write nonfiction over fiction: because I'm…

— Leslie Jamison

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

— Anthony Burgess

It's our job as fiction writers to provide a delight that nothing else can - to such a degree that people have no choice…

— Jennifer Egan

I'm a bit skeptical about the possibilities for resistant fiction, and even more despondent over the potential for politically engaged writing to do much…

— Davis Schneiderman

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

— Sheila Heti

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

— Phil Klay

I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.

— Kate Grenville

The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people.

— John Grisham

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is…

— George Saunders

Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

— Robert Boswell

Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

— Robert Boswell