Fiction Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.

— Bonnie Friedman

“Fiction is a great combination between experience and imagination.”

— Desi Puspitasari

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

— Nadine Gordimer

“what people write reflects what they believe—fiction is where you go to tell or read the truth that people will stare or laugh at…

— Michael Marshall

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

“Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from their perspective.”

— Annie Murphy Paul

“What is so addictive about fiction is that it is the one reliable place in which we can apprehend and participate in - fully…

— Rick Gekoski

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

— Charles Stross

“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

Most fiction comes from your experience.

— Susan Minot

“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing the world through their eyes.…

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Matthew Specktor