Also Quote by Karen Traviss

I don't think it's the writer's job to give answers or to give opinions. In fact, when a writer has answers, I think the…

— Nathan Englander

To me, fiction is the single best way there is - to me, it's the most profound way - of dealing with questions that…

— Charles Bock

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

— Richard Harris

Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society…

— Doris Lessing

The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by…

— Vance Palmer

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

— Bill Gates

Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the perfect answer.

— Gillian Cross

I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense…

— A. B. Yehoshua

“Utter objectivity...is not only impossible when judging literature, it’s not exactly desirable. Fiction involves trace elements of magic; it works for reasons we can…

— Michael Cunningham

I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view of literary…

— Mark Kurlansky

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

— Julius Lester