Fiction Quotes · Page 60

“Is there a character in all of fiction more isolated than the little red hen?”

— Karen Joy Fowler

“Nothing makes you think you might need years of therapy like saying the word breasts in front of your mother.”

— Katie McGarry

Every fiction writer writes around the thing they will never say. Thats what fiction writers do

— Anonymous

The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people.

— John Grisham

When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world

— Julian Barnes

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

— Mark Twain

There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.

— Steven Spielberg

“Love, doesn't need any stamp of society to prove itself, it just happens”

— shilpi

About the time you might start to think that science fiction - the real stuff, not the species of fantasy that goes…

— Lois Tilton

I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And…

— Alexander Chee

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.

— Joseph Boyden

Apocalyptic fiction, while ultimately about God's purposes, usually portrays an immediate, human world of competing conspiracies. Whatever happens is orchestrated, coordinated and…

— Virginia Postrel

One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you…

— Scarlett Thomas

“Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a character’s predicament, but never to solve his problems.”

— Vivian Vande Velde

All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even…

— Paul Auster

What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever.…

— T.C. Boyle

Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced…

— David Leavitt

History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose…

— Victor Hugo

“the true protagonist of an sf story or novel is an idea not a person. If it is good sf the idea…

— philik k dick dr. willis McNelly

Fiction writers come up with some interesting metaphors when speaking of plot. Some say the plot is the highway and the characters…

— James N. Frey

It's very hard to be a screenwriter. I remember getting a couple of awards. I got a PEN West award a million…

— Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

“ “Well, Mr. George, I’d say that’s a long way up for us to be worried about a wee 30 feet from away…

— Tom Baldwin

I don't like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of silence, and I…

— Cynthia Ozick

When you're writing a book that is going to be a narrative with characters and events, you're walking very close to fiction,…

— Samuel Hynes

“If a wizard should take up residence in your garden, and requests food, you are obliged to feed him.”

— Mark Jackman

Murderer who lives in my building. His name is Dan Bevacqua. Hes a fiction writer.

— Arda Collins

Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

— Nadine Gordimer

“Perhaps we are all fictions, father, in the mind of God.”

— Graham Greene

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

— Elizabeth Moon

A lot of fiction doesn't answer a question that any reasonable person would ever ask.

— Elif Batuman

I want to be Jackie Onassis and have a second act as a fiction editor. I don't think I wanna write.

— Gillian Jacobs

“Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.”

— Miriam Allen de Ford

Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.

— Paul Bowles

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

— Frederik Pohl

For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.

— Norman Lock

I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different.

— Kameron Hurley

[The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence.

— Mary Lee Settle

“Pastor McFucking Bride this . . . Pastor McFucking Bride that. Fuck him!”

— S.B. Redd

“If he's like any other man I've ever met, it's not my smile he's going to be looking at.”

— Brad Thor

“Fiction merely allows us a glimpse of the alternative.”

— Anthony Horowitz