Answer Quote by Gillian Cross

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in…

— J. G. Holland

To me, fiction is the single best way there is - to me, it's the most profound way - of dealing with questions that…

— Charles Bock

All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.

— George R. R. Martin

The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.

— Valerie Plame

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have…

— Ethan Canin

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in…

— Jim Rohn

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

— Arundhati Roy

One of the great things about fiction is you can use an issue and describe it in human terms.

— Michael Connelly

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.

— James Scott Bell

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr

I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life.

— Anthony Doerr