Emotional Quote by Fred D'Aguiar

Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction.

— Diana Ossana

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

— Anne Michaels

The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

— Anonymous

I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that…

— George Saunders

I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain…

— Tess Gerritsen

As a fiction writer you train yourself to think about situations subjectively. I don't really care for narratives that are just A, B, C,…

— Oscar Hijuelos

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes,…

— Jodi Picoult

Fiction allows for moral questioning, but through the back door. Personally, I like books that make you think - books you're still wondering about…

— Jodi Picoult

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

— Anonymous

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

There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown…

— David Hewson

For me, writing plays is far more an act of the mind than of the emotions. It's a very different kind of impulse than…

— Jim Grimsley