Fiction Quotes · Page 62

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

— Twinkle Khanna

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

— Mark Zero

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

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

— Leos Carax

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

I've always liked science fiction as a way of commenting on ourselves and it's wrong that it is seen as less valid…

— Richard Herring

There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction.

— Sam Lipsyte

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of…

— Joshua Foer

I've always wanted to do a project with space imagery because I've always loved these amazing sci-fi electro book covers. I've always…

— Robert Coppola Schwartzman

“Hey, I write fiction. I just make this stuff up, unless I get my hands on some good juicy truth. You know…

— Dick Peterson

In my opinion there are two basic questions that any writer tries to answer. "What is?" is the question non-fiction asks. "What…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“To want more was not just childish, but cowardly, and somehow constpatory too. Death was change; it led to new chances, new…

— Iain Banks

“Neither of us asked to be born descendants, yet I’d be rewarded with his death, and we couldn’t prevent that. No one…

— Shannon A. Thompson

One of the dangers of science fiction, particularly bad science fiction, is that you have these scenes where the characters turn to…

— Alastair Reynolds

[The Women's Room] is very much a white woman's piece of fiction, for sure. But for me, as a white woman, I…

— June Diane Raphael

I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd…

— Anonymous

I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also…

— Edward Einhorn

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me…

— Nanci Griffith

In fiction, it's as if you enter a dream world that you created, but your characters have their own free will. They…

— Andrew Lam

Mayor Daley has no honor and his word has no value. The sneaky way he did this shows that he knows it…

— Phil Boyer

Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his views -…

— Paul Di Filippo

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

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

— Paul Auster

Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction.

— Lisa Unger

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

— Jeanne Moreau

“There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery - Cassel Sharpe”

— Holly Black

There were no small brown kids as the centre of the children's fiction I grew up with.

— Konnie Huq

I enjoy women's conversation, and I think that helps me to describe them in fiction.

— Alexander McCall Smith

“There is fact in every fiction and truth in every lie.”

— Krisi Keley

I tend not to read fiction - I'll read one novel a year during the summer - but I do read a…

— David Lammy

Children's fiction is the most important fiction of all.

— Neil Gaiman

“We can't change the world by shouting, but our words can have meaning if we give them enough respect.”

— Evan Meekins

“After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn’s for an oyster supper.”

— Michael Cox

Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.

— Vinton Cerf

“My cat mocks me frequently. It's the universe's way of keeping me from getting too big of an ego.”

— Michelle M. Pillow