Fiction Quote by Siri Hustvedt

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

— Karen Russell

Life can be unsettling. Writers have always gravitated to conflict, unhappiness and disturbing themes. We as readers would get bored pretty quickly if stories…

— Clarence Major

I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the…

— Charlie Kaufman

I think what a lot of fiction is, is the imagining of the worst so as to prepare ourselves.

— Paul Bloom

I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating us at…

— Lionel Shriver

As a young kid I assumed that everybody was sort of on the same wavelength as I was and then I found out in…

— George Saunders

my experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I find there.

— Marion Dane Bauer

As writers, we live very much in our own minds much of the time, buzzing in our unconscious spaces as we go about the…

— Laurie Foos

I think real life is weirder than fiction.

— Kim Shattuck

Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality.

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

“I like to think of weird fiction as an unceasing distortion and buckling of ambient space and time; where plot, theme, atmosphere and voice…

— Helen Marshall

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

— Tracy Kidder