Answers Quote by George Saunders

“Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or…

— George Saunders

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for…

— Orson Scott Card

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

— Suzanne Curchod

Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

— Rose Wilder Lane

It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal of good…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

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

The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by…

— Vance Palmer

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

— Fay Weldon

Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don't know what's inside. You hook them with the…

— Randy Alcorn

Fiction is a place where people can meet, where they take the time to very seriously examine and think about the experiences of other…

— Phil Klay

...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to…

— Sarah Caudwell

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

— Phil Klay