Fiction Quote by Orson Scott Card

Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.

— David Foster Wallace

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

— Charles Stross

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

— Nadine Gordimer

The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.

— Varley O'Connor

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

— Peter Ackroyd

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is…

— Gillian Cross

Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions...

— Farley Mowat

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

“what people write reflects what they believe—fiction is where you go to tell or read the truth that people will stare or laugh at…

— Michael Marshall

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

— Anne Michaels

The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.

— Tom Rachman

Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself…

— David Foster Wallace