Fiction Quotes

I tend to read non-fiction.

— Gary Oldman

My fan fiction is canon.

— Dwayne McDuffie

“Being safe is fiction.”

— Tom Hodgkinson

I've always liked SyFy.

— Lance Henriksen

I love science fiction.

— Anonymous

I love sci-fi and fantasy.

— Amber Benson

I hate science fiction.

— James Dyson

I don't read fiction.

— John W. Henry

“Is this how humanity waves good-bye? Hell no.”

— Rick Yancey

I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan,

— Gale Anne Hurd

What is fiction or cinema if not escape?

— Jeff Feuerzeig

The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

— Tea Obreht

Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature.

— Dana Stabenow

“Love Fiction for Fiction Lovers”

— Selene Grace Silver

“Perihelion, an online science fiction magazine.”

— Joe Vasicek

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

— William Faulkner

In an infinite multiverse, there is no such thing as fiction.

— Scott Adsit

Most fiction says you may or may not be alive tomorrow; science fiction talks often about the future.

— Harlan Ellison

'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years.

— David Benioff

“All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship

— Kinky Friedman

Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes.

— Alexander McCall Smith

“We must kill the guard before we can enter the palace.”

— Evan Meekins

“You ever play that game seven minutes in heaven, baby? Because we're about to play it.”

— Kathey Gray

Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.

— Ellen Glasgow

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their…

— Dorothea Brande

How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate…

— Douglas Adams

I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of…

— Sarah Zettel

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or…

— Alice Hoffman

I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by…

— Sharon Olds

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to…

— Orson Scott Card

Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is…

— Jasper Fforde

Soul mates' are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness…

— Spencer W. Kimball

The great thing about fiction is that I don't have to settle on an answer to any troubling question, or even a…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

The private and serious drama of guilt is not often a useful one for fiction today and its disappearance, following perhaps the…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

Perhaps the rediscovery of our humanity, and the potential of the human spirit which we have read about in legends of older…

— Pierre Trudeau

I became much more interested in plot when I really didn't consider myself a writer anymore. When I was in an art…

— Vito Acconci

Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ...…

— Donna J. Haraway

A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a…

— Julia Glass

“Something refused to come into focus in my thinking. Indistinctly, as though in a fog, shapes moved toward me and retreated just…

— Jon Woodson