Because Quote by Gillian Cross

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

I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that…

— George Saunders

My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of the world…

— Ben Lerner

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material…

— Terry Brooks

It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who is different.

— Alice Mattison

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

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

— Valerie Plame

Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when…

— Jonathan Gottschall

Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them.

— Lisa Joy

I think in a sense seeing how films have changed me and seeing how fiction moves me more than facts in many ways, and…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

— Anne Michaels

Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at explaining why…

— Kathleen Rooney