Fiction Quote by Paul Auster

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

— David Foster Wallace

I think human beings exist in a social world. I write realistic fiction, and so it isn't that surprising that the social realities of…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep…

— Charles Stross

Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

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

— David Foster Wallace

There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.

— Howard Jacobson

Humanity lives in its fiction.

— Blaise Cendrars

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

— E. L. Doctorow

Human life is fiction's only theme.

— Eudora Welty

I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.

— E. L. Doctorow

We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.

— Edwidge Danticat

“Only Homo sapiens can discuss things that are not tangible, such as fantasies, legends, myths, deities, and religions. The ability to talk about fiction…

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