Fiction Quotes · Page 34

Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.

— Nancy Mairs

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The only unforgivable sin is to look into the human heart without compassion.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful.

— Mira Nair

“Faction” is a type of historical fiction that combines fact with fiction.”

— Martin Herman

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

— Piers Anthony

Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.

— Eamon de Valera

There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction.

— Ken Follett

Marta said I don't seem to like to read fiction very much. "I guess you're not an 'afictionado'," she said. Poor Marta.…

— Jack Handey

I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I…

— George Hickenlooper

In fiction, we are not bound by social convention, so the things that mystify and unsettle are allowed to rise to the…

— Laura van den Berg

So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It…

— Michio Kaku

Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human…

— Helen Cam

Braxton Cosby's stories feel personal and well thought-out. I'm happy to welcome this entertaining writer to the YA science fiction field. I…

— Tananarive Due

“Because the truth is, fiction is one of the most effective time travel machines in the universe and always has been.”

— Ann VanderMeer

When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course -…

— Simon Mawer

“Everyday, God gives us the sun- and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us…

— Paulo Coelho

[Michael] Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction…

— Emily Barton

[W]hen you're shooting a doc, you're trying to class it up because you can. You know, you're trying to make this feel…

— John Hyams

“Ironically, [living in] communities of the like - minded is one of the greatest dangers of today ́s globalized world. And it…

— Elif Shafak

I've read a lot of fiction from writers just starting out, and the dialogue is a little bit forced, or it's almost…

— Sara Shepard

Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in…

— Roxane Gay

“Our first kiss was there on the bridge in the woods. How do you describe a first kiss? It is like trying…

— Kirstie Collins Brote

Probably the best way to describe my writing style is to refer you to "purple prose", which was a tag given to…

— Tom Johnson

Interestingly enough, Aurthur C. Clarke once autographed a copy of his book "Rendezvous with Rama" for me.

— Frederick Lenz

Every photo is almost a fiction or a dream. If it's really good, it's another form of life.

— Sylvia Plachy

“Literature is not an instruction manual. For obvious reasons, this is rarely noted in fiction.”

— Charles Baxter

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

— Maria de Medeiros

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

— H. L. Mencken

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

— John Larroquette

In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you.

— Colson Whitehead

“Good science fiction starts with a question "what if...?”

— Franklin Clermont

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

— Derrick Bell

“For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.”

— John Green

The general public still thinks that science fiction has nothing to do with their day-to-day lives.

— Robert J. Sawyer

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction.

— Ian Mcewan

Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.

— Forest Whitaker

The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.

— Marlon James

The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.

— Paul Di Filippo

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.

— Jeanette Winterson