Fairy Quote by Ralph Ellison

I think that if there's one key insight science can bring to fiction, it's that fiction - the study of the human condition -…

— Charles Stross

“Once in a while, when reality is too painful to bear, fiction can help us to restore the fragility of our human condition.”

— Frances Stead Stellers

It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply.

— Vivian Gornick

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

— Charles Stross

“Fiction can, and should, mimic life, with all its messes and discomfort and disquiet. Fiction should also prove just how complicated and troubled many…

— Anonymous

By isolating the issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, climate change, environment, governance, economics, catastrophe and whatever other problems the present embodies or the…

— James Gunn

Humanity lives in its fiction.

— Blaise Cendrars

“Science fiction is about using speculative scenarios as a lens to examine the human condition.”

— Ted Chiang

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

— Lisa Joy

Science fiction stories reflect major issues that concern humanity.

— Liu Cixin

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

“A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened…

— Theodore Sturgeon