Fiction Quote by Wilkie Collins

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes,…

— Jodi Picoult

Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something…

— Malcolm Cowley

Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don't want to, they shouldn't be novelists. I think story-telling is important…

— Susan Howatch

I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true…

— Errol Morris

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

— Ernest Gaines

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I feel like handling a narrative in fiction is a wonderful way to teach stories that then open a pathway to reality and understanding.

— Amy Landecker

I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism when we're…

— Edward Hirsch

“A good fiction writer can write any character or any story that she wants to write. The importance, IMO, is a burning desire to…

— Suzanne Brockmann

Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them.

— Lisa Joy

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr