Distance Quote by Jonathan Franzen

“Fictions are useful so long as they are taken as fictions. They are then simply ways of "figuring" the world which we agree to…

— Alan Wilson Watts

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

“Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it moves people's hearts as well…

— Ian Leslie

This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness.

— Josh Radnor

Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at explaining why…

— Kathleen Rooney

I think fiction allows us to sit for a while with people we would rather not meet.

— Uwem Akpan

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

— Robert Morgan

“What is so addictive about fiction is that it is the one reliable place in which we can apprehend and participate in - fully…

— Rick Gekoski

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

— Jonathan Franzen

Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.

— David Foster Wallace

Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances!

— Sheila Heti