About Quote by Sufjan Stevens

“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

All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice, folly, denial…

— Julia Glass

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is…

— Pat Barker

Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the perfect answer.

— Gillian Cross

Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

— Fay Weldon

The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

— Tea Obreht

Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.

— Matthew Specktor

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

— Anne Michaels