Life Quote by Michael Marshall

“Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.”

— Ann Marie Aguilar

Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to…

— Dan Chaon

Fiction is a place where people can meet, where they take the time to very seriously examine and think about the experiences of other…

— Phil Klay

Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal actions, psychological…

— Tom Robbins

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you…

— Vikram Seth

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

— Phil Klay

“Prose fiction is something you build up from twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks, and you, and you alone, using your imagination,…

— Neil Gaiman

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

— Tim O'Brien

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes,…

— Jodi Picoult

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

— Angus Wilson

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

— Albert Camus

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

— Dorothy Allison