Gillian Cross Exploring Quotations

If fiction changes things, it's usually because it's a powerful way of exploring social issues. And it helps us to understand people who are different from us.

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.

Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the perfect answer.