Fiction Quotes

I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.

I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.

I think it's Jerry's masterful fiction writing.

The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

I've always been interested in science fiction.

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.

Palaeontologists use fiction all the time.

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'

I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what's to come, so I think that's really interesting.

The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.

Science fiction still is an idea genre.

The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.

It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.

Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.

The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.

Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.

The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.

It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' - you are inhabiting that 'I.'

I prefer fact to fiction.

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.

With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on.

Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.

I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate.

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.

Fiction novels, that's my game.

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

I love science fiction.

It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past.

Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.

The fiction I'm most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.

I'm a huge science fiction fan.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.

I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad.

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.

A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; you're obliged to concentrate on lives that are completely other than your own.

If I'm going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.

I hate science fiction.

I wouldn't define myself as the girl from 'Pulp Fiction.'

I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to.

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction.