Fiction Quote by Jeanette Winterson

Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination

— Jeanette Winterson

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so - fiction…

— Chad Harbach

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

— Marilynne Robinson

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

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

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

— Edward Hirsch

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

— H. L. Mencken

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

— Charles Stross

Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others

— William Gibson