Bits Quote by Martin Amis

If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting.

— Ethan Canin

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff.

— Terry Pratchett

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

— Richard Harris

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

— Colm Toibin

Some people don't like my fiction, because they prefer the nonfiction. But moving around keeps the work fresh for me and, hopefully, for my…

— Colson Whitehead

Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach…

— Alex Berenson

In fact, one of the things that I really love about literary fiction is that it's one of the few kinds of writing that…

— Barbara Kingsolver

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have…

— Ethan Canin

Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people.

— Adam Ross

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