Brain cells Quote by Lee Child

Two questions I can't really answer about fiction are 1) where it comes from, and 2) why we need it. But that we do…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Fictions exist because of this fact. Because we have only one life, and our desires and fantasies demand a thousand lives. Because the abyss…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate of all…

— Joseph Conrad

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

— Bonnie Friedman

It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply.

— Vivian Gornick

The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.

— Helen Dunmore

“Why not make a fiction of the mind's fictions?”

— Natasha Trethewey

“Once in a while, when reality is too painful to bear, fiction can help us to restore the fragility of our human condition.”

— Frances Stead Stellers

“we read fiction to satisfy a more basic need—to imagine our way into other lives, to explore characters and situations that tell us something…

— Tom Perrotta

The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're coming from and what we're going to.

— Miguel Nicolelis

“I often tell my students that fiction is about desire in one way or another. The older I get, the more I understand that…

— Roxane Gay

“It is the case that, albeit to a lesser extent, all fictions make their readers live "the impossible", taking them out of themselves, breaking…

— Mario Vargas Llosa