Answers Quote by Patrick Rothfuss

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

— Richard Hughes

“Fiction is a mix of reality, the interpretation of that reality and a lot of "what if".”

— Jim Sellers

“Fiction isn't what 'was'. It's 'what if'?”

— Richard Peck

Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.

— Saul Steinberg

“The best fiction rarely provides answers; but it does formulate the questions exceptionally well.”

— Julian Barnes

A lot of fiction doesn't answer a question that any reasonable person would ever ask.

— Elif Batuman

“what is fiction in particular is truth in general.”

— Anonymous

To me, fiction is the single best way there is - to me, it's the most profound way - of dealing with questions that…

— Charles Bock

“The question isn't "is your novel good enough?" The question is: "Do you believe in it?”

— Giuseppe Bianco

“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

Someday, as an exercise, you might ask a writer to give himself the questions he wants to answer. If you really want a writer's…

— John Fante

There's an imperative to make sure you distinguish fiction from the fact, because if the fact is doing the work, why did you do…

— Fred D'Aguiar