Impulse Quote by Lauren Groff

Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.

— David Foster Wallace

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

— Flannery O'Connor

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 writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr

Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.

— Bonnie Friedman

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

— Fay Weldon

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

— Karen Russell

“Fiction can, and should, mimic life, with all its messes and discomfort and disquiet. Fiction should also prove just how complicated and troubled many…

— Anonymous

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

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

— Marilynne Robinson

“The human condition is such that we can only stomach so much imagination. We need for things to be labeled either fiction or nonfiction.…

— J. W. Lord

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of…

— John Cheever