Began Quote by Helen Dunmore

Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read and learn…

— Neil Gaiman

I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions.

— Sharon Creech

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

— Walter Kirn

“Fiction is very, very important," he said, his voice is rising. "Storytelling is how people learn. You get people to understand new cultures and…

— Kristine Grayson

I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to write a…

— Emily Giffin

If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there…

— Jayne Anne Phillips

“While the stories are fiction, the journey is real.”

— C.J. Peterson

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

— Ulysses S. Grant

I began auditioning for acting jobs at the ripe old age of 12. Thirty years later, including a 15-year run on television, I sometimes…

— Diane Farr

In 2009, at the Vancouver Peace Summit, I met a supporter of Free the Slaves, an NGO dedicated to eradicating modern-day slavery; weeks later,…

— Lisa Kristine

Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were about kindergarten age. From the start, they…

— Charles J. Shields

History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later…

— Elliott Abrams