Another world Quote by Herman Melville

“Why might not the world WHICH CONCERNS US—be a fiction?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.

— Charles Baxter

“Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we…

— Neil Gaiman

Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life…

— Varley O'Connor

“Fiction can, and should, mimic life, with all its messes and discomfort and disquiet. Fiction should also prove just how complicated and troubled many…

— Anonymous

Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.

— Roxane Gay

Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.

— Neil Gaiman

Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything.

— Arundhati Roy

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and…

— John Cheever

Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and…

— Annie Dillard

We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable.

— Mary Kay Andrews

“we read fiction to satisfy a more basic need—to imagine our way into other lives, to explore characters and situations that tell us something…

— Tom Perrotta