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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

Fiction begins with the senses, and the senses go to work in a place.

Fiction can serve in a non-threatening way to open minds and, I hope, hearts to the Word of God.

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

Fiction is about feeling, which is to say that short stories are about all of us.

Fiction is always a utopian task, in that there's an ideal you hold in your head as you write which inevitably fails in the moment of creation, in the insufficiency of words to convey meaning, or in the way the work is completed in the reader's head.

Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

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

Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

Fiction writing feels more honest to me.

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, because we have to.

fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.

Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.

Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up.

Fiction is an improvement on life

Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

Fiction is fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic.

Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.

Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's freely given can't be contained anymore. It becomes infectious, spreading from the person who created it to the person who listens, and passes it on.

Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.

fiction is the great lie that tells the truth

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

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

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

Fiction stymies me with its possibility. I can't see the bottom and I freeze, cling to the side, or just choke. In nonfiction, particularly that which takes personal narrative for its primary topic, I have a finite space and a finite amount of material. I can't fabricate material, I can only shape and burrow into it.

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.

Fiction writers have their own world, and poets have their own world, and literary criticism has sort of passed over into cultural studies in the university, and so on. They seem more disconnected from each other than they did when I first began to write.

Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't quite see or live the distinction you are making about the forms.

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in a way you figure you will be maximally likable.

Fiction doesn't appeal to me because it can describe physical appearances exhaustively or because it can offer access to the inner depths of an array of human characters - neither that kind of "realism" of bodily surfaces nor of individual psychologies seems particularly realistic to me.

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.

Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by the road and making something beautiful out of it.

Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the reader interested ...)

Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.

Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities.

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.

Fiction is empathy technology.

Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life.

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear, you have to taste the madeleine, and while you are seemingly passive in your chair, you have to travel.

Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.

Fiction novels, that's my game.

Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.

Fictions of law must be consistent with justice.