Fiction Quote by Katie Kitamura

I think a lot of people who read fiction are interested in subtlety. But they wouldn't like my stuff. It's a bit too violent…

— Martin Amis

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

— E. L. Doctorow

There's something to be said for a likable character, but fiction has a way of upending our ordinary standards.

— Ben Dolnick

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

— Colm Toibin

“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

The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and…

— Virginia Woolf

The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.

— Theodore Sturgeon

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

— Vladimir Nabokov

...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to…

— Sarah Caudwell

I've always liked the fact that fiction takes all these pretty unquantifiable human feelings and experiences and projects them onto the page in ways…

— Scott Bradfield

I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that…

— George Saunders

Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification,

— Marilynne Robinson