Conditions Quote by Raymond Carver

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

— Charles Stross

As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality.

— Joanna Scott

“Fiction is what happens inside a writer's head. Reality takes place outside it”

— Barry A. Whittingham

When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world

— Julian Barnes

“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

Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of…

— Varley O'Connor

Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I think you can use fiction to get inside people's minds.

— Don Winslow

I have a lot of theories about the beneficial effects of fiction, but I'm always trying to get away from them a little bit.

— George Saunders

I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.

— N. K. Jemisin

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people…

— Nick Earls