Alive Quote by Karen Russell

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

— Nadine Gordimer

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people…

— Nick Earls

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic…

— Ann Patchett

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living…

— Vincent Canby

“we read fiction to satisfy a more basic need—to imagine our way into other lives, to explore characters and situations that tell us something…

— Tom Perrotta

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

— Jonathan Evison

“Fiction offers the best means of understanding people different from oneself, short of experience. Actually, fiction can be lots better than experience, because it's…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure…

— Elia Suleiman

I think in a sense seeing how films have changed me and seeing how fiction moves me more than facts in many ways, and…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of…

— Varley O'Connor