Fiction Quote by Julian Barnes

Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

We Ask The Questions,But Who Provides The Answers?

— Anonymous

“Poetry, at the best, does us a kind of violence that prose fiction rarely attempts or accomplishes.”

— Harold Bloom

I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of…

— John Updike

“I explained that most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best…

— Azar Nafisi

We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Biographies never feel as real as the best fiction. There is such a discontinuity between the narrative and the material it comes from, which…

— Janet Malcolm

“I explained that most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best…

— Azar Nafisi

Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced…

— Azar Nafisi

“The best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

“What the best fiction does is make powerful affirmations of familiar truths...the trivial fiction which times filters out is that which either makes wrong…

— John Gardner

The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable obstacles. This…

— Sufjan Stevens