Fair Quote by John Edgar Wideman

People resist and fight against things that are new that they haven't seen before, especially if they make them uncomfortable. But fiction is a…

— Gail Simone

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a…

— Steve Almond

Very seldom in my fiction have I directly used the stories people have told me. I think ripping off people's lives in fiction is…

— Colum McCann

Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you things that…

— Anonymous

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

— J. M. Coetzee

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

— Angus Wilson

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes,…

— Jodi Picoult

We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to write true…

— Neil Gaiman

I write fiction, there's no guarantee that what I say is truthful.

— Steve Toltz

It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places and people that I didn't have access…

— Dan Brown

Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself…

— David Foster Wallace

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

— Phil Klay