Interviews <br class="br">Source: On how she once perceived fiction in “NK Jemisin: 'It’s easier to get a book set in black Africa published if you're white'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/02/nk-jemisin-its-easier-to-get-a-book-set-in-black-africa-published-if-youre-white in The Guardian (2020 May 2)
“Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child”
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer
A Gossip on Romance, printed in Longman's Magazine (November 1882).
Context: Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
Joan Robinson (1903–1983) English economist
Source: Contributions to Modern Economics (1978), Chapter 1, The Second Crisis of Economic Theory, p. 3
“All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.”
Orson Scott Card book Children of the Mind
Source: Children of the Mind
Michael Dirda (1948) American literary critic
The Library of Foresight, edition 3 of The Trilogy by John Sai, p. iii.
“There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.”
Joanna Russ (1937–2011) American author
“All fiction may be autobiography, but all autobiography is of course fiction.”
Shirley Abbott (1934)
Quoted in Mickey Pearlman, Listen to Their Voices (1993), ch. 12
“What we remember is probably fiction anyway.”
Beryl Bainbridge (1932–2010) English novelist
“All of our separate fictions add up to joint reality.”
Stanisław Jerzy Lec book Unkempt Thoughts
Unkempt Thoughts (1957), p. 93; also p. 21
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977) Nigerian writer
On the connection between the personal and fictional world in “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘This could be the beginning of a revolution’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/28/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-feminism-racism-sexism-gender-metoo in The Guardian (2018 Apr 28)
