Fiction Quote by N. K. Jemisin

I think fiction allows you to inhabit new domains and it's you, the reader living in that domain for a few days that results…

— Mohsin Hamid

It's my experience that people don't think of fiction writing as being as intellectually serious as other kinds of writing in academia and so…

— Alexander Chee

A lot of people think the best work I've done was nonfiction - the 'Brothers and Keepers' book. But I think of myself as…

— John Edgar Wideman

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

— David Foster Wallace

I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.

— Dale Peck

“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 Tóibín

Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. My whole effort is to remove that distinction. The writer is…

— Arundhati Roy

I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his…

— Ridley Pearson

“An author has to fit into the skin of her characters, to imagine being trapped by unfortunate and sometimes violent circumstances she herself has…

— Loretta H. Marion

I think fiction recues history from its confusions.

— Don DeLillo

I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I don't think a fiction…

— Colum McCann

“I would say, for the moment, that community, at least community larger than the immediate family, consists very largely of imaginative love for people…

— Marilynne Robinson