Fiction Quotes · Page 42

Murderer who lives in my building. His name is Dan Bevacqua. Hes a fiction writer.

— Arda Collins

“Perhaps we are all fictions, father, in the mind of God.”

— Graham Greene

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

— Elizabeth Moon

Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

— Nadine Gordimer

I want to be Jackie Onassis and have a second act as a fiction editor. I don't think I wanna write.

— Gillian Jacobs

A lot of fiction doesn't answer a question that any reasonable person would ever ask.

— Elif Batuman

“Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.”

— Miriam Allen de Ford

Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.

— Paul Bowles

Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

— Paul Di Filippo

In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he…

— Alfred Hitchcock

“As for peace, it was never free and laws were made to be broken. Peacemaker or lawbreaker, someone, somewhere always paid the…

— Virginia McKevitt

I'm not well-versed in the science fiction world. I'm hoping that I'll get more opportunities in it because you get to create…

— Kelly Masterson

I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the…

— Margaret Weis

It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful way with…

— Paul Di Filippo

There are, of course, fat characters in books out there, some of them quite enduring and famous. But they tend to be…

— Michelle Dean

Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of…

— Salman Rushdie

My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer…

— George Santayana

History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics and police procedure in crime fiction. Westerns - gasp -…

— Edward M. Lerner

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability…

— Ann Patchett

“If the weakness of mainstream fiction is its deliberate smallness, the weakness of sf is its puffed-up size, its gauzy immensities. SF…

— John Kessel

“And yet, as she sits there with him on the window seat, with his strong arms around her, she knows that if…

— Julia Hoban

“literary fiction is fiction that examines the character of the people involved in the story, and that popular fiction is driven by…

— Bret Lott

Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. What she wrote was of little consequence. What was…

— Betty Smith

My friend asked me recently, "Do you find it weird that you are now the property of other people's imaginations?" I hadn't…

— Alycia Debnam Carey

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

— Frederik Pohl

For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.

— Norman Lock

I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.

— Bennett Miller

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

— Herman Wouk

“His appetite for the marvelous, and his powers of digesting it, were equally extraordinary”

— Washington Irving

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

— Alice Walker

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

— Jack L. Chalker

I like fiction. I love all sorts of love stories, I think. I even watched '17 Again.'

— Charlyne Yi

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

— Jack Vance

I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.

— Jeri Ryan

“I guess you could say I'm allergic to sunlight. If I'm exposed to it, it could kill me.”

— Lee Thompson

“I am serving the purpose for which I was designed, therefore I am satisfied with my existence.”

— Kevin J Anderson

I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction.

— Gore Vidal

Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.

— Karin Slaughter

I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.

— Fernando Pessoa