Fiction Quotes · Page 52

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

— Peter Benchley

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

— Elizabeth Bowen

One of the great things about fiction is you can use an issue and describe it in human terms.

— Michael Connelly

Romance is the most read genre of fiction in the world - but people always undermine it.

— Nicola Coughlan

“On the misty window of her room, she let her finger trace a broken line. She was that line.”

— Azin Sametipour

“Once it gets off the ground into space, all science fiction is fantasy.”

— J.G. Ballard

“Various large trees— willowy peppers and especially the pines—seem to be reaching down to hold your hand.”

— Tom Hillman

“There are only two things in life,' Bergé said. 'Love and beauty.”

— Mark Zero

Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative…

— Kristina McMorris

One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting…

— Francine du Plessix Gray

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work…

— Kurt Vonnegut

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that…

— Hooman Majd

I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with…

— Daphne du Maurier

There's a market for fiction based on financial services. People wanted me to write stories based on this sector. There's a gap…

— Ravi Subramanian

Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short…

— Tom Paulin

“Take a scientific fact or theory, add a futuristic or other-worldly setting, stir in an imaginative plot and fascinating characters, and a…

— Yvonne Coleman

“Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing…

— Eudora Welty

Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'.…

— Ron Rash

“Once out of the mailroom, I began to learn more about fear. As soon as fear begins to ascend, anatomically, from the…

— Don DeLillo

“I need fiction, I am an addict. This is not a figure of speech. I don’t quite read a novel a day,…

— Francis Spufford

The 'enduring theme' [in fiction] of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to…

— Warren Farrell

“  “Yes, well, I thought you should see it. The cover page is in Arabic scribblin’, but the next hundred-plus pages are…

— Karl Braungart

The cross is the centre of the world's history; the incarnation of Christ and the crucifiction of our Lord are the pivot…

— Alexander MacLaren

I've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie. And it's [World Of Tomorrow] sort of…

— Don Hertzfeldt

I read science fiction every single day of my life. It's my primary love.

— Twinkle Khanna

I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!

— Katee Sackhoff

Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

— Anonymous

“The only wand you'll ever need is a better-feeling thought.”

— C.G. Rousing

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

— Oscar Wilde

Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.

— Leos Carax

Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race.

— Harlan Ellison

I like to read non-fiction on my e-reader, but as for fiction, I usually like to have a copy to keep at…

— Jenny Han

Poirot is a classic character from fiction, not a MacBook Air; he would not benefit from updates.

— Sophie Hannah

“I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Jesus, I wonder if that sound was our listening receiver falling to the floor.”

— Karl Braungart

“I knew that it was impossible for us to be kept apart for too long.”

— Erica Sehyun Song

“The beer gave Penn a headache immediately; she blinked like a mermaid struck by sunshine.”

— Genie Frisbee

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

— Christopher Fry

Cultural concepts are one of the most fascinating things about historical fiction.

— Diana Gabaldon

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

— Roddy Doyle