Fiction Quotes · Page 35

The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.

— Stephen King

Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.

— Horace

“Love, is an unknown passion, for an unknown person, for an unknown reason.”

— Hamza Hassan Sheikh

Many of the top-grossing movies of all time are science fiction.

— Bonnie Hammer

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

— Anonymous

And nowadays, the idea of AI is not really science fiction anymore - it's just science fact.

— Lisa Joy

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

— Yann Martel

Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.

— Andrew Vachss

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

— James Rollins

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes…

— Ray Bradbury

Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

With fiction, you can do whatever you want to, but if you are making a film on someone, you have to stick…

— Rajkumar Hirani

I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry…

— Cheryl Mendelson

Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of…

— Arthur Phillips

People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But…

— Fran Lebowitz

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order…

— Isabel Allende

Unbreakable is a little bit Starship Troopers and a little bit Esmay Suiza, with a dash of Firefly for flavor. W. C.…

— Dayton Ward

The literature now is so opaque to the average person that you couldn't take a science-fiction short story that's published now and…

— James Cameron

“The privileges of the Nobles of the Sword are not democratic ... Across the country, peasants have been burning crops and châteaux.…

— Debra Borchert

I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory…

— Flannery O'Connor

It's always difficult to write honestly of one's deepest feelings, particularly without the protective veil of fiction. But the more difficult, the…

— Alix Kates Shulman

More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly…

— Lev Grossman

Because they are so humbled by their creations, engineers are naturally conservative in their expectations of technology. They know that the perfect…

— Henry Petroski

In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead…

— O. Henry

You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.

— Alice Mattison

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

— William Gibson

Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.

— Stanley Bing

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.

— Heinrich Heine

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

— John Connolly

“It could be that this record set before you now is a fiction.”

— Jeanette Winterson

When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands…

— John Darnielle

History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'.

— Joss Whedon

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.

— Steven Spielberg

There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.

— Jeff Feuerzeig

People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.

— Harvey Pekar

“Fiction here is likely to contain more truth than fact. Therefore”

— Virginia Woolf

“Fiction should be specific rather than general, because people are specific.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.

— Stephen King

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.

— Julian Schnabel