Attention Quote by Karen Russell

I tend more towards what some people call literary science fiction, but what I mean by that is that it is full of interesting…

— Edward Einhorn

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

— Edward Hirsch

For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors - which is the logic of narratives in general - over reality, which…

— Ken Liu

I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain…

— Tess Gerritsen

Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by the road…

— Jonathan Franzen

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

— Anne Michaels

Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal actions, psychological…

— Tom Robbins

Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a pure art…

— Charles Stross

In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's…

— Ben Marcus

What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies…Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the…

— Anonymous

It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is often nothing…

— Neil Cross

I developed a definition - which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world - that poetry was a…

— Grace Paley