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The twentieth century saw a professionalization of fiction writing, particularly in its second half and particularly in the Anglo-Saxon world - not so much…

— Zia Haider Rahman

I hate to see great works of literature ghettoized, whereas others that conform to the rules, conventions, and procedures of the genre we call…

— Michael Chabon

I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that…

— George Saunders

I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest…

— Teju Cole

“I think the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is less about “Did it really happen or was it made up?” than it is about…

— Geoff Dyer

The great thing about fiction is that everything you care about ends up going into the book.

— Peter Heller

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel…

— Ann Patchett

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who…

— Flannery O'Connor

“This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word.…

— Henry Miller

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

— Neil Gaiman

And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger,…

— Paul Auster