Fiction Quote by J. M. Coetzee

I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't…

— Bret Easton Ellis

Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism,…

— Hilary Mantel

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

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

— Valerie Plame

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 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

Every fiction writer writes around the thing they will never say. Thats what fiction writers do

— Anonymous

“Fiction means never letting the pure truth get in the way of a good story.”

— Nathaniel Robert Winters

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

— Tim O'Brien

People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

— E. L. Doctorow

“Fiction is a mix of reality, the interpretation of that reality and a lot of "what if".”

— Jim Sellers