Books Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“Fiction is a world where only the reader enjoys”

— Mbutoh

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

— Richard Attenborough

Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original,…

— John Gardner

Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

— Arundhati Roy

Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.

— Terence McKenna

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

— Dennis Lehane

I don't think writing fiction has changed my worldview.

— Donald Ray Pollock

Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything.

— Arundhati Roy

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

— Charles Baxter

“The beauty of fiction is it need not be factual and the writer's imagination can travel as far from reality as he or she…

— Sheldon Friedman

Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions...

— Farley Mowat

I think, like, fiction has a place to understand those things that are hardest to understand that non-fiction can't ever get at.

— Andrew Sean Greer