Famous quotes containing the words fiction and/or authors:
“... fiction never exceeds the reach of the writer’s courage.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
“The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)