Deeper Quote by Marion Dane Bauer

Most fiction comes from your experience.

— Susan Minot

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

— Karen Russell

“Fiction offers the best means of understanding people different from oneself, short of experience. Actually, fiction can be lots better than experience, because it's…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

— David Leavitt

The feeling of being an outsider, and the identity theme, are hardwired into me. If there's anything really autobiographical in my fiction, it's that…

— Dan Chaon

I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my…

— Jenny Offill

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is…

— Gillian Cross

The magic of fiction seems to be the more specific you are, the more universal you end up becoming.

— Shyam Selvadurai

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

— Bonnie Friedman

Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.

— Robert J. Sawyer

All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.

— Barry Unsworth

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

— Jonathan Evison