Art Quote by Robert J. Sawyer

Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is…

— Arthur Phillips

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

— Anthony Burgess

Most fiction comes from your experience.

— Susan Minot

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.

— Neil Gaiman

Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

— Arundhati Roy

Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself…

— David Foster Wallace

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and…

— John Cheever

I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I read about…

— Jim Shepard

Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to…

— Dan Chaon

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.

— Beth Moore

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