Any Quote by James Lasdun

Fiction is a place where people can meet, where they take the time to very seriously examine and think about the experiences of other…

— Phil Klay

Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself…

— David Foster Wallace

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for…

— Orson Scott Card

Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.

— Suzanne Curchod

Fiction is an easy way to talk about issues: I think it feels less preachy. You can have the students discuss characters in the…

— Jay Asher

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own…

— Jeanette Winterson

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or…

— Dorothea Brande

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

— Phil Klay

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

— Tim O'Brien

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

— Anthony Burgess

Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them.

— Lisa Joy