Conflict Quote by Leo Tolstoy

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

— E. L. Doctorow

Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.

— Suzanne Curchod

It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal of good…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

Good fiction creates its own reality.

— Nora Roberts

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living…

— Vincent Canby

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

— Ralph Ellison

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Good fiction doesn’t claim to mirror reality at all. It indicts reality by providing a paradigm of shape and order and justice—the way we…

— P.S. Baber

Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it…

— Orhan Pamuk

Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.

— Matthew Specktor

“Good fiction is not defined by the masses, but by the tentative ear.”

— James D. Maxon

I don't think the 'what' distinguishes a good novel from a bad one but rather the 'how.'

— Joseph Heller