Appetite Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs,…

— Mark Leyner

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

I think, like, fiction has a place to understand those things that are hardest to understand that non-fiction can't ever get at.

— Andrew Sean Greer

We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But I think,…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the…

— Charlie Kaufman

With non-fiction, there is the struggle to be accurate. With fiction, it is a bit different: the desire to let imagination take you to…

— Amitava Kumar

We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure,…

— Azar Nafisi

When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go. You can't…

— Geraldine Brooks

I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and…

— Helen Fielding

People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.

— Will Self

I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain…

— Tess Gerritsen

In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and…

— Simone de Beauvoir