About Quote by Lauren Beukes

People resist and fight against things that are new that they haven't seen before, especially if they make them uncomfortable. But fiction is a…

— Gail Simone

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

— Don Roff

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

— Fay Weldon

“what people write reflects what they believe—fiction is where you go to tell or read the truth that people will stare or laugh at…

— Michael Marshall

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you…

— Vikram Seth

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

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

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

— Phil Klay

Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want to see…

— David Foster Wallace

The movement for women's liberation was about an emotional transformation, an explosion, a feeling all over the country that things must be different, and…

— Alix Kates Shulman

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you…

— Megan McCafferty

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written…

— Edmund White