Books Quote by Philip Roth

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

— Philip Roth

“You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some scandal, but…

— Philip Roth

In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.

— Miriam Toews

Fiction isn't memoir and memoir isn't fiction.

— Arthur Phillips

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no…

— Theodore Sturgeon

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a…

— Steve Almond

I'm reading a bunch of fiction by Afghan and Iraq War veterans for a New Yorker piece. There hasn't been that much, but it's…

— George Packer

“Real life doesn't grant us many of the more than useful possibilities people can come out with in fiction.”

— Camilo Gomes Jr

You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some scandal, but…

— Philip Roth

One of the many things that surprised me about 'Wool' is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.

— Hugh Howey

I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I advise my…

— Anne Rice

I think fiction allows you to inhabit new domains and it's you, the reader living in that domain for a few days that results…

— Mohsin Hamid