Bits Quote by Garrison Keillor

Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism. It's 365…

— Anonymous

Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

...The very word 'fiction' implies another world, literally a different place, whereas no one claims that a dedicated sportsman is escaping his life, or…

— Russell T Davies

One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and see how…

— Ben H. Winters

Fiction is fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic.

— Dan Chaon

I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.

— Gary Shteyngart

Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

— Arundhati Roy

As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality.

— Joanna Scott

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and…

— Neil Gaiman

“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

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

— Anthony Burgess

The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.

— Varley O'Connor