Care Quote by Mark Twain

“Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we…

— C.S. Lewis

If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to…

— Douglas Coupland

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

Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to be successful,…

— Mark Twain

The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and…

— Whitley Strieber

The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable obstacles. This…

— Sufjan Stevens

I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.

— Brent Weeks

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is…

— Pat Barker

Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

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

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for…

— Orson Scott Card