Behave Quote by Orson Scott Card

Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.

— Suzanne Curchod

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

— Fay Weldon

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

— Lisa Joy

The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.

— Valerie Plame

Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the…

— David Baldacci

One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and see how…

— Ben H. Winters

People resist and fight against things that are new that they haven't seen before, especially if they make them uncomfortable. But fiction is a…

— Gail Simone

Good fiction creates its own reality.

— Nora Roberts

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.

— Anita Brookner

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 Toibin

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

— Anthony Burgess