Books Quote by Jeanette Winterson

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

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you…

— Megan McCafferty

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.

— Tom Rachman

Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want to jeer…

— John Updike

The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.

— Valerie Plame

When you write fiction, you're like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It's funny how things come…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

— Marilynne Robinson

“Fiction can do more than entertain you; it can change you”

— alisa hope wagner

I think one of the reasons that I like fiction versus nonfiction is that I myself can kind of disappear from the story.

— Celeste Ng

Fiction only creates friction with the ones you love.

— Ayjee Grogan

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

— Anonymous