Fiction Quote by Jeanette Winterson

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

— Jeanette Winterson

Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions…

— John Dryden

“Poetry is a way of coming to know the realness of things; fiction is a way of coming to know the world of relationships;…

— Kelly Cherry

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

— Marilynne Robinson

Fiction is an improvement on life

— Charles Bukowski

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and…

— John Cheever

Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.

— H. L. Mencken

This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.

— Terry Tempest Williams

I must say that, on the whole, I prefer fiction to poetry.

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

— Joy Kogawa

“Once in a while, when reality is too painful to bear, fiction can help us to restore the fragility of our human condition.”

— Frances Stead Stellers