Any Quote by Jonathan Evison

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

— Karen Russell

I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction.

— Joel Edgerton

Most fiction comes from your experience.

— Susan Minot

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

— Theodore Sturgeon

A lot of things that I write about have happened to people around me, if not necessarily to me or in the organizations I've…

— Ravi Subramanian

There's a huge distance between who I am as a regular person and what takes place in my fiction.

— David Means

When you write fiction, you're like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It's funny how things come…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

my experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I find there.

— Marion Dane Bauer

Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would.

— Phil Klay

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.

— Beth Moore

The magic of fiction seems to be the more specific you are, the more universal you end up becoming.

— Shyam Selvadurai

So much of what I write in fiction is based on true stories.

— Mark Kurlansky