Activity Quote by John Green

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

— Phil Klay

“You know, one of the interesting things you find about writing fiction is that any fiction you write has to be political. Otherwise, it…

— Walter Mosley

I think our conception of literature should accommodate not only apolitical writers but also those whose political opinions we find unpalatable. Fiction after all…

— Pankaj Mishra

I think a more complex idea of fiction - and the human self's relationship with the world - emerges when we abandon this philistine…

— Pankaj Mishra

I think writing is a very political act. I think that any writer who says it's not, is simply a writer who is disavowing…

— Mohsin Hamid

People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs,…

— Mark Leyner

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

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.

— Andrew Sean Greer

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

— Anthony Burgess

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

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

— Sheila Heti

We are living in an era of such interesting new forms, and certainly narrative non-fiction has emerged as a major form. People who are…

— Daniel Mendelsohn