Fiction Quotes · Page 55

Fiction is my home, I came from fiction, I like to tell stories.

— Fatih Ak?n

“Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort.”

— Amaya Ellman

“Listen: Common sense doesn't mean what it used to mean." -Matthias Chalmers, STAIRWAY2 HEAVEN”

— Chaz Thompson

I've always been a reader of science fiction, and I have loved a lot of feminist science fiction.

— Naomi Alderman

“That's the fashion. Fast as the speed of light, they say. Ha! It's got no soul, sir, no heart.”

— Terry Pratchett

Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.

— Richard Posner

“The world is full of magic. You’ve just got to learn how to access it.”

— Max Nowaz

Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.

— Tanith Lee

“And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break…

— Virginia Woolf

I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we…

— Alan Alda

Two questions I can't really answer about fiction are 1) where it comes from, and 2) why we need it. But that…

— Marilynne Robinson

There are lots of great characters in fiction who viewers and readers have engaged with that behave badly. Great characters can be…

— Jesse Armstrong

“Everyone thought she was so confident and together, but that was really a mask she wore to protect herself. The old adage…

— Hope Worthington

It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I thought Indians built fires with fiction." … "I can do that, but I'd like to eat sometime in the next day…

— Patricia Briggs

“Woe is the mind of the common man, so easily controlled by the prospect of an ambition never to be truly attained.…

— Evan Meekins

I'm aware of narrating certain experiences as they happen or obliterating those experiences with narrative and then those stories - not the…

— Ben Lerner

“And she knows then that she was right about her brother, that it takes an unbelievable strength to feel this kind of…

— Julia Hoban

A writer can't just be well-educated or good at research; to build a living, breathing world with interesting characters, you have to…

— Lynn Flewelling

“My crystals call to me. You cannot leave without counting your crystals, the internal voice beckons. No. I retaliate against the thought.…

— Tricia Copeland

Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight…

— Pablo Picasso

This whole business of documentary being a second-class citizen is bullshit. A documentary can be as interesting, as dramatic, as sad, as…

— Frederick Wiseman

I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that…

— Roland Emmerich

As someone who writes and teaches YA fiction, I spend a lot of time trying to define its character and readership, and…

— Robin Wasserman

It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply.

— Vivian Gornick

Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".

— Robert A. Heinlein

All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.

— Kate Morton

Katie Lane is a wonderful new voice in Western romance fiction.

— Joan Johnston

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

— Milton Sapirstein

Wanted to write fiction since I was 11, since I first read 'In Our Time' by Hemingway.

— Peter Heller

Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.

— David Walliams

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

— Margaret Atwood

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

— David Foster Wallace

In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown.

— Ridley Scott

At least I hope - that the fiction I've written so far has flaws but has mostly been successful.

— William T. Vollmann

“Nature has distributed intelligence unequally, but imagination equally.”

— Amit Kalantri

Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.

— Jeff Bezos

All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.

— Orson Scott Card

“It is not often that you see life and fiction take each other by the hand and dance.”

— Lawrence Thornton

I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.

— Charlie Brooker