Emotion Quote by Isaac Asimov

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

— Theodore Sturgeon

“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned for the…

— Tom Rachman

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic…

— Ann Patchett

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

— Charles Stross

I have a lot of theories about the beneficial effects of fiction, but I'm always trying to get away from them a little bit.

— George Saunders

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

— Karen Russell

Fiction only creates friction with the ones you love.

— Ayjee Grogan

Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification,

— Marilynne Robinson

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

— Edgar Allan Poe

The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

— Anonymous

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people…

— Nick Earls

As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.

— Juliet Marillier