Capacity Quote by William Trevor

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

The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and…

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Jhumpa Lahiri

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

— Fay Weldon

Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification,

— Marilynne Robinson

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

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

— Matthew Specktor

The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.

— Napoleon Hill

Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood,don't write fiction.

— Mary Gaitskill

I really don't know enough about the structure of fiction.

— Conrad Aiken

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.

— Beth Moore

In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of…

— Rohinton Mistry