Fiction Quote by John Dufresne

Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.

— Barbara Kingsolver

The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses,…

— Flannery O'Connor

Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.

— Neil Gaiman

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

— Robert Morgan

“Think of literary fiction as a meal with intricate scents, flavors, and textures that you can’t recognize unless you chew with your eyes closed.”

— Jessica Bell

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

— Nadine Gordimer

“Fiction is what happens inside a writer's head. Reality takes place outside it”

— Barry A. Whittingham

Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and…

— Virginia Woolf

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.

— V. S. Naipaul

Most fiction comes from your experience.

— Susan Minot