Art Quote by John Cheever

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of…

— John Cheever

Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

— Arundhati Roy

“Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.”

— Ann Marie Aguilar

And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when…

— Jerzy Kosinski

Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.

— Robert J. Sawyer

Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is…

— Arthur Phillips

Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of…

— Varley O'Connor

Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and…

— Annie Dillard

Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.

— Don DeLillo

Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way…

— Tim O'Brien

“Prose fiction is something you build up from twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks, and you, and you alone, using your imagination,…

— Neil Gaiman

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

— Anthony Burgess