Author-quotes Quote by James D. Maxon

“But stories are just tools. They should not become our goals or our yardsticks. When we forget that they are mere fiction, we lose…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in our heads…

— George Saunders

“Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it moves people's hearts as well…

— Ian Leslie

“But fiction has the unique power of revealing something true.”

— Ali Smith

“Fiction allows you to go deeper into the truth. You can put anything down and you can take chances.”

— Peter Matthieson

“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing the world through their eyes.…

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Nathaniel Robert Winters

“Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.”

— 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 is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“Fiction merely allows us a glimpse of the alternative.”

— Anthony Horowitz

“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate of all…

— Joseph Conrad