Fiction Quote by Robert Greene

When I'm writing fiction, I'm sort of interested by the fact that somehow or other I can have the feeling of actually seeing things…

— Marilynne Robinson

I have a visual mind, so when I read a book, I get an instant picture in my head and it's very clear.

— Richard Armitage

And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never would have…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I feel like if you can describe something fully and accurately, then people will be able to see it themselves - they don't need…

— Kenneth Lonergan

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

— Edward Norton

I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that…

— Toni Morrison

I can tell very early on, reading a script, within six or seven pages, whether I'm looking at real people, and whether I can…

— Sarah Lancashire

Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly.

— Anonymous

There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.

— Zadie Smith

“I see what I did not see. I experience that which is outside my own experience. This is the magic of reading novels. This…

— Siri Hustvedt

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing.

— Janet Fitch