Fair share Quote by Jasper Fforde

I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.

— Gary Shteyngart

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

Fiction, even when it's grim and hard, is fun.

— Katherine Dunn

All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like…

— Garrison Keillor

Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.

— Anonymous

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

— Anthony Doerr

...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to…

— Sarah Caudwell

Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances!

— Sheila Heti

I think fiction allows us to sit for a while with people we would rather not meet.

— Uwem Akpan

Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.

— Neil Gaiman

without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold.

— Elizabeth Bowen

...The very word 'fiction' implies another world, literally a different place, whereas no one claims that a dedicated sportsman is escaping his life, or…

— Russell T Davies