Fiction Quotes · Page 50

Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction.

— Mark Hamill

Even if I am short of EMIs, I will not do fiction on TV. I might as well open a shop.

— Sunil Grover

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

— Richard Hughes

Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.

— Paul S. Kemp

“Fiction can do more than entertain you; it can change you”

— alisa hope wagner

“How can I be more important than someone else? Isn’t every life important?”

— Shelley K. Wall

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

— Antonia Fraser

“One doesn't intentionally to alter the truth, just enhance it and make it more memorable.”

— John Alexander

“When fiction has become reality, life may turn into a fairy tale or a firestorm. Tina, time has come to pull up…

— Erik Pevernagie

I'm a storyteller, and there's some genres I like. I don't think I'm ever going to do science fiction, but I want…

— Spike Lee

Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the…

— John Green

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would…

— Caleb Carr

“He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic…

— Max Nowaz

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

— Antony Beevor

“I am glad you are happy--but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.

— Hilary Mantel

“WEST SALEM ~ October 2011 A sudden vision, fraught with malevolence and darkness, obscured her sight. The face of a menacing figure…

— Cherie De Sues

“The pupil of a goat's eye is elongate like a cat's, but if you look closely you'll see that it's in the…

— Eugene Marten

My mother fed my love of demons, science fiction, and paranormal. She was a devout horror movie fan who kept me up…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and…

— Neil Gaiman

I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us,…

— Laurence Sterne

For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks…

— David Nicholls

My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm…

— Rachel Nichols

Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me…

— John Green

“It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. —Mark Twain”

— Oliver Benjamin

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.

— Jesmyn Ward

“Bonnie, believe in me. I’ll save you. I remember how to fly.”

— L.J. Smith

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

— Frederik Pohl

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

— Leonard Susskind

“there are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done”

— Evan Meekins

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people…

— Jodi Picoult

A magician pulls a rabbit from a hat, and actors pull truth from fiction.

— Mia Goth

I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to…

— Joel Edgerton

Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind.

— Vernon Reid

fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.

— Helen McCloy

“Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.”

— Emma Donoghue

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

— Walker Percy

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

— Ralph Peters

If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.

— Veronica Roth

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

— Irvine Welsh