Attention Quote by Frederick Buechner

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

— Karen Russell

I was in love with the idea of love, so I created elaborate fictions for my relationships - fictions that allowed me to believe…

— Roxane Gay

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

— Jonathan Evison

In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the best romances,…

— Sarah MacLean

“Love Fiction for Fiction Lovers”

— Selene Grace Silver

“The best fiction is often how we interpret our own lives and what we see as our common due. It is created usually as…

— Anne Edwards

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 is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

— Nadine Gordimer

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

— Patrick Rothfuss

It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.

— Neil Gaiman

“we read fiction to satisfy a more basic need—to imagine our way into other lives, to explore characters and situations that tell us something…

— Tom Perrotta

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic…

— Ann Patchett