Books Quote by K.M. Weiland

“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Once in a while, when reality is too painful to bear, fiction can help us to restore the fragility of our human condition.”

— Frances Stead Stellers

“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned for the…

— Tom Rachman

“The true magic of novels dwells within us individually. Each reader will interpret every single character, scene, and metaphor in a slightly different way”

— Carl Henegan

“Fiction, however, sometimes ensures disappointment with reality”

— Miguel Syjuco

“Think of literary fiction as a meal with intricate scents, flavors, and textures that you can’t recognize unless you chew with your eyes closed.”

— Jessica Bell

“I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the veil, that…

— Shannon Celebi

“Yet every great storyteller knows it’s the fine art of taking me by the hand and showing me that has the most effect on…

— Rene Gutteridge

“One intriguing way to enter into the battle between good and evil, life and death, sanity and madness, is in the pages of fiction.”

— Robert Poe

“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate of all…

— Joseph Conrad

“One of the great gifts of fiction is that it asks us to stretch our empathy.”

— Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

“Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery,…

— Nicole Christie