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Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of…

— Varley O'Connor

Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions…

— John Dryden

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

— Jeanette Winterson

I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long…

— Margaret Atwood

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

— Edward Hirsch

“Fiction is what happens inside a writer's head. Reality takes place outside it”

— Barry A. Whittingham

“All fiction is based on some form of reality—otherwise we would never have the inspiration or knowledge to dream up the realistic situations we…

— Rene Folsom

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

— Charles Stross

Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary...

— Alberto Manguel

“Prose fiction is something you build up from twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks, and you, and you alone, using your imagination,…

— Neil Gaiman

Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal actions, psychological…

— Tom Robbins