Bones Quote by Hilary Mantel

Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal actions, psychological…

— Tom Robbins

Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to…

— Flannery O'Connor

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

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

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

— Anthony Doerr

Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up.

— Nancy Kress

Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.

— Joseph Conrad

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is…

— George Saunders

There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown…

— David Hewson

The difference between fiction and journalism is that you can disguise the characters, so you won't get your legs broken, and there's no interview…

— Sylvie Simmons