Adult Quote by Marianne Williamson

I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

— Karl Ove Knausgard

Being lost in books has to be one of the best feelings it's like you can escape reality and live in your own fantasy.

— Anonymous

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

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic…

— Ann Patchett

Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.

— Bonnie Friedman

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."

— Edwidge Danticat

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

Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

— Robert Boswell

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life

— Martin Amis

Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

— Robert Boswell