Best Quote by Ken Liu

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

— Fay Weldon

Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them.

— Lisa Joy

“The one thing is fiction in a novel and the other thing is reality. With fiction you don't make a fuss - you can…

— Anonymous

While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is too inhibited…

— Geraldine Brooks

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have…

— Ethan Canin

There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is vital precisely…

— Charles J. Shields

Fiction writers have their own world, and poets have their own world, and literary criticism has sort of passed over into cultural studies in…

— Robert Hass

I think a more complex idea of fiction - and the human self's relationship with the world - emerges when we abandon this philistine…

— Pankaj Mishra

In my mind, there's not a great difference between what people call fiction and non-fiction. So in that sense, I'm like an early-18th-century person.…

— John Ralston Saul

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is…

— George Saunders

“I am not a fiction reader. If I already do, I read fiction always more like the illustration of a philosophical-political thesis than a…

— Louis Tobback

Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism clashes with…

— Isabel Allende