Doe Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

— Walker Percy

And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never would have…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

— Fay Weldon

Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

— Ellen Glasgow

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is…

— Margaret Atwood

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

— Jonathan Evison

Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure…

— Elia Suleiman

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

At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.

— Charles Baxter

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

— Jessamyn West

I try not to articulate ideas in the film once I've arrived on the plot and the characters. I believe that if I focus…

— Ira Sachs