Become Quote by Gary Shteyngart

It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a…

— John Grisham

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written…

— Edmund White

I get to use fiction as a way to work out my thinking and to delight readers in the process. I can't think of…

— Ken Liu

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living…

— Vincent Canby

I find it very satisfying to write because you can purge many things and vent what you feel under the mask of fiction.

— Steven Berkoff

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

Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.

— Suzanne Curchod

I love fiction and read novels constantly.

— Michael Imperioli

I just love fiction. I love it.

— Regina Spektor

I can't imagine turning into one of those codgers who no longer reads fiction. I'm regularly stirred by it and suffer no anxiety of…

— Adam Ross

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

— Augusten Burroughs

Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes.

— Alexander McCall Smith