Fiction Quotes · Page 45

Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.

— Diana Gabaldon

Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Since truth is often stranger than fiction, fiction needs to be pretty weird

— Erik Meyer

“An author of fiction is a god of the world he creates. But it must be a world others want to inhabit.”

— Raul Ramos y Sanchez

I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.

— Kate Grenville

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

— Orson Scott Card

I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life.

— Anthony Doerr

“Her scream of utter horror and fright was a sound that no one in the chamber would ever forget. ~Crispin.~”

— J.L. Clayton

On 'Stranger Than Fiction,' the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing…

— Marc Forster

I started reading fantasy and science fiction and writing fantasy and science fiction when I was - when I started junior high…

— Leigh Bardugo

Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction.

— Kate Wilhelm

“let’s get our semantics straight. Story does not equal fiction, much less “lies.” It’s the world we Christians inhabit as “people of…

— Sarah Arthur

“The point of stories is not that they are objectively true, but that the soul of the story is truer than reality.…

— Cassandra Clare

“It doesn’t matter that these are works of fiction and hence less scientific than the numbers and reports. They describe a human…

— Christian Madsbjerg

I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is…

— E. Haldeman-Julius

“Procuring the house in Ballister was a desperate bid for respect, for recognition, the ultimate gesture (or sacrifice, as it turned out)…

— Ted Gargiulo

“How often do you ignore a dream, dismiss it as fantasy and then see echoes of the dream around you the following…

— Samantha Robertson

I'm just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It's great to sit in the editing room with the director and…

— Gale Anne Hurd

“I was at ease in everything, to be sure, but at the same time satisfied with nothing. Each joy made me desire…

— Albert Camus

I first started writing historical fiction in the late '70s and kept pictures of Kathleen Woodiwiss and Rosemary Rogers on my refrigerator…

— Virginia Henley

I'm a novelist, I'm not an activist. I'm not a non-fiction writer, I'm not a journalist. I'm not a foodie, I'm not…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what…

— Joseph Needham

As in my other works of fiction: All persons living and dead are purely coincidental, and should not be construed. No names…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Fiction. . . . It's like goading a mongoose and a cobra into battle and staying with them to see who wins.

— Shauna Singh Baldwin

“Life is the courier of the universal brilliance." Elysse”

— Elysse Poetis

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

— Rudy Rucker

“His kiss was light but lingering, like smoke from shivering lips on a freezing winter morning.”

— Rebecca Berto

I love writing fiction and can do it anywhere - I once even missed a flight because I was so engrossed.

— Prue Leith

I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.

— Brian Aldiss

Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies.

— John Twelve Hawks

I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.

— Randy Alcorn

I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'

— Michael P. Anderson

Art, you know, art and fiction, especially in big books, you know, it takes a while.

— Charles Bock

“I didn't know then that the mind, like the earth, has several layers: a crust, a mantle, a boiling core.”

— Lauren Slater

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

— Ivan Reitman

You know what the funniest thing about Europe is? It's the little differences.

— Quentin Tarantino

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

— Jill Lepore

“This isn’t fiction, the man says. This is the Post Office.”

— Ali Smith

“Nonfiction lets us learn more; fiction lets us be more.”

— Kylene Beers