Crafts Quote by Lynn Freed

“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

“The magic ingredient in fiction is that special something that socks readers right in the gut and leaves them breathless with joy or sorrow”

— K.M. Weiland

“Fiction cannot move so much, but that the attention may be easily transferred; and though it must be allowed that pleasing melancholy be sometimes…

— Samuel Johnson

“Fiction, however, sometimes ensures disappointment with reality”

— Miguel Syjuco

As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality.

— Joanna Scott

Over the years, I have come to realize that no matter how satisfying fiction is, it becomes that much better when it actually happened.

— Elin Hilderbrand

It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me it often…

— Michael Helm

“An author has to fit into the skin of her characters, to imagine being trapped by unfortunate and sometimes violent circumstances she herself has…

— Loretta H. Marion

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

— Vivian Gornick

“Unlike uplifting light fiction, narrative nonfiction’s trammeled territory provides no safe room where an unnerved writer can banish their unpleasant memories. Narrative nonfiction must…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

— Anonymous

“Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery,…

— Nicole Christie