Fiction Quote by Uwem Akpan Download Open image “I think fiction allows us to sit for a while with people we would rather not meet.” — Uwem Akpan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction People Thinking
Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances! — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Fiction is a place where people can meet, where they take the time to very seriously examine and think about the experiences of other… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think that one thing fiction can offer, and must offer, is a place where someone's mind and their imagination can come to rest… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people. — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For me, as I've said many times, the story is not research. The story is how the characters relate with each other and with… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
I'd say my religious life has shaped my worldview; my writing, I'd say too, is an extension of the pulpit...it reaches folks who don't… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
I always felt my writing could benefit from the attention of established writers. I knew my work could grow and be better. — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
I believe that Jesus was both priest and poet. Imagine those powerful parables! My experience as a priest tells me it's not possible to… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
I'm happy if my book makes you want to kiss your family... if we can reconcile with each other no matter where we are… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the art-for-art's-sake philosophy. With the raw material before me and the gifts within me, I did my best to celebrate… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
Maybe if we can find time to hug and cherish our families and the people around us, child suicide or college suicide wouldn't be… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
After the phone call from The New Yorker, I walked more than a mile to church to thank God. But then I told God… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
I have been very afraid of writing about other cultures and countries. I've been worried about getting the research wrong. I ask a lot… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
I believe artists should be able to step into other people's situations, contexts and cultures and work from there. If artists don't have that… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
Though people are more important than money, I'm not convinced these large sums of money paid out to victims is the best. Listening to… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
