Alimony Quote by O. Henry

The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.

— Tom Clancy

Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has…

— Red Smith

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of…

— John Cheever

Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.

— John Updike

It may be time for serious literary novelists to take back some of the subject matter we abandoned to hack novelists and the movies.

— Scott Spencer

By isolating the issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, climate change, environment, governance, economics, catastrophe and whatever other problems the present embodies or the…

— James Gunn

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

— John Banville

I think a more complex idea of fiction - and the human self's relationship with the world - emerges when we abandon this philistine…

— Pankaj Mishra

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

— Vernor Vinge

All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we…

— Martin Amis

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

— Lauren Groff

Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.

— Hunter S. Thompson