Criticism Quote by S. J. Perelman

“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.”

— Neil Gaiman

“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned for the…

— Tom Rachman

“Fiction is a great combination between experience and imagination.”

— Desi Puspitasari

“One intriguing way to enter into the battle between good and evil, life and death, sanity and madness, is in the pages of fiction.”

— Robert Poe

“Fiction should always challenge what you believe in, and make you think hard about what it is to be a human being.”

— Joe Mynhardt

“In fiction if nowhere else, I must have a little meaning, a little coherence, or I will go mad.”

— Anne Rice

“fiction is both artifice and verisimilitude, and that there is nothing difficult in holding together these two possibilities.”

— James Wood

“I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.…

— Colm Tóibín

“Think of literary fiction as a meal with intricate scents, flavors, and textures that you can’t recognize unless you chew with your eyes closed.”

— Jessica Bell

“Fiction merely allows us a glimpse of the alternative.”

— Anthony Horowitz

“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

“The glory of fiction is in its falseness, but the impact of fiction is found in its painful reality.”

— R.W.K. Clark