Change Quote by Yann Martel

As an actress, I think I really understand that stage where you think you are picking reality in order to feed the fiction, but…

— Ludivine Sagnier

The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.

— Tom Clancy

It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me it often…

— Michael Helm

One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and see how…

— Ben H. Winters

Fiction creating reality.

— Paul Auster

Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.

— Ben Marcus

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

— Jessamyn West

“At their most basic level, great fictional stories are about transformation - usually a change from one perspective to another. The change may be…

— Rob Parnell

I think that fiction has a certain power.

— Jesmyn Ward

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

— Charles Baxter

If fiction changes things, it's usually because it's a powerful way of exploring social issues. And it helps us to understand people who are…

— Gillian Cross

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of…

— John Cheever