Baseness Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life

— Martin Amis

Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes…

— John McGahern

I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.

— Brent Weeks

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

Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its…

— Albert Pike

“Fiction can, and should, mimic life, with all its messes and discomfort and disquiet. Fiction should also prove just how complicated and troubled many…

— Anonymous

Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...

— Richard Bach

For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“It is the case that, albeit to a lesser extent, all fictions make their readers live "the impossible", taking them out of themselves, breaking…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“American society is uncomfortable with the idea that some people’s lives are difficult past the point of sanity and that they aren’t necessarily to…

— George Saunders

Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.

— Terence McKenna

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