Fiction's about what it is to be a human being. David Foster Wallace fictionhuman Change image and share on social
Fiction's essential activity is to imagine how others feel, what a Saturday afternoon in an Italian town in the 2nd Century looked like. My ambition is solely to get some effect, as of light on stone in a forest on a September day. Guy Davenport 2ndactivityafternoon share on social
Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own. Varley O'Connor artclaimdream share on social
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. Pat Barker answerauthorbloody Change image and share on social
Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune, because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later. Mark Haddon eventfictionfortune Change image and share on social
Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale. Gabriel Garcia Marquez arrivedayfiction Change image and share on social
Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind. J. Courtney Sullivan closefictiongreat Change image and share on social
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly. Jonathan Safran Foer feelfictionmake Change image and share on social
Fiction writers tend to err either making people more than they are or less than they are. I'd rather err on the side of the former. Jim Harrison errfictionmake Change image and share on social
Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies. Paul Theroux activitybookbuy Change image and share on social
