Capturing Quote by Joel C. Rosenberg

I'm a bit skeptical about the possibilities for resistant fiction, and even more despondent over the potential for politically engaged writing to do much…

— Davis Schneiderman

Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. My whole effort is to remove that distinction. The writer is…

— Arundhati Roy

One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and see how…

— Ben H. Winters

In a democracy in the 20th and 21st century, if you can't base your fiction upon ordinary people and the issues that engage them,…

— John Updike

With fiction, and also with nonfiction that you can take your time doing, you have a much better chance of reaching across the divide…

— George Saunders

I tend to read non-fiction.

— Gary Oldman

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want to see…

— David Foster Wallace

I prefer non-fiction to fiction. In fact, I don't read fiction at all. I read books that are based on true events.

— Diana Penty

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no…

— Theodore Sturgeon

With non-fiction, there is the struggle to be accurate. With fiction, it is a bit different: the desire to let imagination take you to…

— Amitava Kumar

Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is…

— Arundhati Roy