Believe Quote by Karen Thompson Walker

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

Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

— Etgar Keret

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes,…

— Jodi Picoult

I feel like handling a narrative in fiction is a wonderful way to teach stories that then open a pathway to reality and understanding.

— Amy Landecker

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr

When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that I want…

— Isabel Allende

I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true…

— Errol Morris

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

— Wilkie Collins

The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.

— James Kelman

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.

— Wally Lamb

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I read about…

— Jim Shepard