Acknowledge Quote by Ned Beauman

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

— Dean Koontz

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them.

— Lisa Joy

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material…

— Terry Brooks

I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for…

— Junot Diaz

fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

— Agatha Christie

Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I think authors are just realizing there's no real reason to feel limited to a narrow set of genre rules in their writing. There's…

— Patrick Rothfuss

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

— Flannery O'Connor

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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