Fiction Quote by Scott Turow

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.

— Scott Turow

Fiction is an improvement on life

— Charles Bukowski

I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.

— Aaron Belz

I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

— Paul Auster

Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

— Rose Wilder Lane

Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the…

— David Baldacci

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life

— Martin Amis

The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.

— Valerie Plame

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for…

— Orson Scott Card

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

— Nadine Gordimer

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

— Anthony Burgess