21st century Quote by Michael Helm

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'm definitely excited by big ideas, both in what I write and what I read. Most days, reality is so mind-numbingly dull that I…

— Ron Currie Jr

“Why else do we read fiction, anyway? Not to be impressed by somebody's dazzling language - or at least I hope that's not our…

— Orson Scott Card

We are living in an era of such interesting new forms, and certainly narrative non-fiction has emerged as a major form. People who are…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with…

— Paul Auster

I feel like there's already a written narrative going on everywhere. All the different situations and realities you're in, like words floating by. It's…

— Bill Callahan

I think one of the problems with being a fiction writer these days is that you can't keep up with the headlines. Things that…

— Don Winslow

I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we…

— Natalie Goldberg

Everybody's always living in fiction just as much as children, but the way our stories are faked is curtailed by all sorts of narratives…

— Claire Messud

“Why else do we read anyway? I think most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry…

— Orson Scott Card

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:…

— Orson Scott Card

There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.

— Howard Jacobson