Fiction Quotes · Page 57

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

Well, it's my voice, so it's more accessible that way, and there are also all sorts of things like plot and timelines…

— Alice Sebold

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing…

— Ayana Mathis

I don't tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were…

— Joanne Harris

“If only I could freeze this moment, this feeling, because right now, nothing else mattered. I was f***ing flying.”

— Tara Kelly

But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is…

— Lauren Oliver

“He heard a furious rustling, a disturbance in the trees. He followed Zander’s final glance and saw the angel frozen in mid-air,…

— Jabari Asim

I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits…

— Jenny Offill

News is almost more interesting to me than other people's fiction, if that makes sense. But other people's fiction in terms of…

— Neill Blomkamp

I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and…

— James Rollins

I am not going to get into it myself, except to say (1) if I am writing "boy fiction," who are all…

— Anonymous

The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it…

— Boris Pasternak

“Before unearthing this letter, I had questioned myself about the ways in which a book can be infinite. I could think of…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“But fiction is not, as many nonwriters seem to think, a random grab bag of made-up whimsies, as undisciplined and unreasoned as…

— Helen Benedict

I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the minority but I think…

— Jess Walter

While the fictional realm as such allows for the obstacles of present-day politics to be altered, neglected, and negotiated at will, sci-fi…

— Larissa Sansour

Even though I always claimed that I didn't want to write about something - once I wasn't writing fiction, anyway; I think…

— Vito Acconci

“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

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

— Rebecca Berto

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

— Rudy Rucker

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

I don't think you could write fiction or create art unless you are sort of a positive person.

— David Means

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

— Rudy Rucker

“Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.” Chat. British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.”

— Priya Ardis

“(F)iction is...what ought to have been, not what actually was. At least, not exactly.”

— Charles McCarry

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

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

— Peter Carey

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

— William H. Gass