Fiction Quotes · Page 48

A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.

— Thomas M. Disch

“Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold.”

— George Orwell

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

— William H. Gass

Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

— Peter Carey

I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.

— Virginia Woolf

“Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made by your own hand.”

— Y.K. Raikou

I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

— Ira Glass

Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

— Janette Rallison

I certainly wake up every morning and thank God that I'm not a novelist because the theater is tough, but novel writing…

— Tony Kushner

I don't like docudramas. Documentaries should not go together with fiction, or half-fiction or quarter-fiction. The two should not go together. They…

— Elie Wiesel

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands... that can…

— Ivan Stoikov

“The human condition is such that we can only stomach so much imagination. We need for things to be labeled either fiction…

— J. W. Lord

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life…

— Chaim Potok

I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you…

— Jamie Johnson

I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Seduction is an absolute pleasure to read -- clever, suspenseful, exciting, mysterious, learned, and engrossing. Some of the best historical fiction I've…

— David Liss

“When you read the account of a murder - or, say, a fiction story based on murder - you usually begin with…

— Agatha Christie

The fatal flaw of most utopian visions is that they're fundamentally static, and that's not a comfortable place for humans to live.…

— Christine Jennings

“What are you doing with all these books?" I asked, stepping towards a tall stack on the floor. I ran my fingers…

— Anna Carey

Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or and people said: "Wait a minute, he's actually smart and he knows what he's doing!" I…

— Eli Roth

In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are…

— Will Self

The idea of absolute freedom is fiction. It's based on the idea of an independent self. But in fact, there's no such…

— Peter Coyote

Most of what I do is science fiction. Some of the things I do are fantasy. I don't like the labels, they're…

— Octavia Butler

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Diana Gabaldon

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

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

— Shauna Singh Baldwin

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

— J.L. Clayton

“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

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

— Randy Alcorn

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

— John Twelve Hawks