Happy ending Quote by Tim Powers

As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality.

— Joanna Scott

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people…

— Nick Earls

“Fiction, however, sometimes ensures disappointment with reality”

— Miguel Syjuco

“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned for the…

— Tom Rachman

Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of…

— Varley O'Connor

“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

Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies,…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me it often…

— Michael Helm

All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like…

— Garrison Keillor

Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting their perspectives…

— Paul Bloom

“Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery,…

— Nicole Christie

“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