Creative Quote by Rita Mae Brown

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.

— Andrew Sean Greer

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

— Patrick Rothfuss

People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs,…

— Mark Leyner

Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.

— Robert J. Sawyer

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

— Theodore Sturgeon

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

— Anthony Burgess

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

— Angus Wilson

Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification,

— Marilynne Robinson

The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.

— James Kelman

People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

— Libba Bray

Fiction only creates friction with the ones you love.

— Ayjee Grogan

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks

— Laurell K. Hamilton