“I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.” MeanTwoFictionNovelFunctionContraryGenreNasty Author:Mark Haddon
“I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn't set out to deliver a specific message.” WayBelieveStoriesFictionMessagesFunction Author:Karen Thompson Walker
“Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being able to think about that.” ThinkingWritingMindAbleFictionFunctionNarrativeWriting FictionGreat GiftsChronology Author:Dani Shapiro
“Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.” WritingMomentsAsksFictionFunction Author:Etgar Keret
“I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the answer." It's not an op-ed.” PeopleThinkingWritingAnswersFictionFunctionFiction Writers Author:Mohsin Hamid
“In Pakistan, many of the young people read novels because in the novels, not just my novels but the novels of many other Pakistani writers, they encounter ideas, notions, ways of thinking about the world, thinking about their society that are different. And fiction functions in a countercultural way as it does in America and certainly as it did in the, you know, '60s.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldWayDoeIdeasDifferentAmericaYoungFictionNovelFunctionNotionEncountersPakistanWay Of Thinking Author:Mohsin Hamid