Acceptance Quote by Salman Rushdie

“The best fiction is often how we interpret our own lives and what we see as our common due. It is created usually as…

— Anne Edwards

The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and…

— Virginia Woolf

Good fiction creates its own reality.

— Nora Roberts

If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.

— Roxane Gay

“Fiction that fails to engage an audience with the emotional intricacies of viable characters will, for many in that audience, simply alienate them with…

— Hal Duncan

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

— Joe Mynhardt

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 Toibin

It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

— Paul Di Filippo

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

— Ralph Ellison

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life

— Martin Amis

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

— Rita Mae Brown

Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings…

— Edmund White