Communion Quote by Parker J. Palmer

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in…

— Jim Rohn

I think, like, fiction has a place to understand those things that are hardest to understand that non-fiction can't ever get at.

— Andrew Sean Greer

Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal actions, psychological…

— Tom Robbins

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or…

— Dorothea Brande

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

— Tim O'Brien

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is…

— Margaret Atwood

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

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

I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain…

— Tess Gerritsen

You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at…

— A. S. Byatt