Answers Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Why might not the world WHICH CONCERNS US—be a fiction?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.

— Neil Gaiman

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.

— Paul Auster

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.

— Orson Scott Card

Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to…

— Dan Chaon

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

— Phil Klay

“Fictions exist because of this fact. Because we have only one life, and our desires and fantasies demand a thousand lives. Because the abyss…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s…

— Steven Saylor

People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs,…

— Mark Leyner

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

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

The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and…

— Whitley Strieber