Back doors Quote by Jodi Picoult

Fiction is a place where people can meet, where they take the time to very seriously examine and think about the experiences of other…

— Phil Klay

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written…

— Edmund White

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

— Anne Michaels

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic…

— Ann Patchett

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or…

— Dorothea Brande

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

I get to use fiction as a way to work out my thinking and to delight readers in the process. I can't think of…

— Ken Liu

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

— Barbara Kingsolver

The great thing about fiction is that everything you care about ends up going into the book.

— Peter Heller

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is…

— Pat Barker

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel…

— Ann Patchett

“what people write reflects what they believe—fiction is where you go to tell or read the truth that people will stare or laugh at…

— Michael Marshall