Fiction Quote by Jodi Picoult

But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they…

— Alexander McCall Smith

We all create fictions to hide our pain

— Anonymous

“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

Our sufferings and weaknesses, in so far as they are personal, are of no literary interest whatsoever. They are only interesting in so far…

— W. H. Auden

There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we…

— Tullian Tchividjian

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

— Pema Chodron

“I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. I guess…

— David Foster Wallace

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.

— Philip Yancey

Most of us tend to belittle all suffering except our own," said Mary. "I think it's fear. We don't want to come too near…

— Elizabeth Goudge

Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate; it befalls us at our invitation.

— Dean Koontz

Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep.…

— Rob Bell

I think that fiction has a part to play in urging us, as a species, toward compassion,

— George Saunders