Fiction Quote by Tim Winton

One of the great things about fiction is you can use an issue and describe it in human terms.

— Michael Connelly

I never think about issues when I'm working on a novel. Issues are things that happen to people in sufficient numbers to elicit widespread…

— Anna Quindlen

Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up.

— Nancy Kress

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

— Valerie Plame

I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.

— Eleanor Catton

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

When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world

— Julian Barnes

The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.

— Robert Penn Warren

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 nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

— E. L. Doctorow

It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privileged by it.

— Kate Bornstein

My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of the world…

— Ben Lerner