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I think of fiction as the highest calling. I'm kind of addicted to it. It's the thing that has gotten me through all the hard points in my life.

— Ruth Reichl

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.

— Edmund White

I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.

— Tess Gerritsen

Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people.

— Adam Ross

Fiction is the best way I know how to think something through.

— Phil Klay

What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

— V. S. Naipaul

I like fiction. I love all sorts of love stories, I think. I even watched '17 Again.'

— Charlyne Yi

I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.

— Isabel Allende

Fiction, even when it's grim and hard, is fun.

— Katherine Dunn

I've written fiction... but the nonfiction has always received the most attention.

— Jim Murphy

✗Opposing Perspectives

I generally find fiction without some move to the weird, less imaginative, dull, prosaic. Not all of it, of course, but a lot of it. I suppose it's just a question of taste.

— Ellen Datlow