Certain Quote by Jesmyn Ward

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have…

— Ethan Canin

All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.

— George R. R. Martin

I think fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition.

— Ethan Canin

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

— John McGahern

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

— Fay Weldon

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

— Colm Toibin

I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life.

— Anthony Doerr

I really don't know enough about the structure of fiction.

— Conrad Aiken

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

— Valerie Plame

The power of story is potent and that's why historical fiction can be an extraordinarily significant way of teaching people logical truth propositions, moves…

— Hank Hanegraaff

That's the power of fiction, that it can take the collective and make it personal.

— Anthony Doerr

Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up.

— Nancy Kress