Fiction Quotes · Page 69

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

— Anthony Burgess

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

— Mary Lee Settle

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

— Kameron Hurley

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

— S.B. Redd

Geoff Nelder inhabits Science Fiction the way other people inhabit their clothes.

— Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Science fiction tends to be philosophy for stupid people.

— Chuck Klosterman

Science fiction is not necessarily either fiction or anything to do with science.

— Judith Merril

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

— Mark Twain

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I…

— Lisa Scottoline

I think one of the reasons I love science fiction so much is that it's - when it's ideally done right, it's…

— Don Hertzfeldt

“Fiction should always challenge what you believe in, and make you think hard about what it is to be a human being.”

— Joe Mynhardt

I read certain things about history. I don't like fiction. I read about stuff that's real, stuff that's goin' on in the…

— Prodigy

I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will…

— Gary Shteyngart

I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of…

— Vikram Chandra

“The Female Orgasm. The Big O. That elusive, reclusive Loch Ness of the labia. Does it prove the existence of God, or…

— Kirstie Collins Brote

The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've…

— John Dufresne

For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of their local…

— James Patrick Kelly

“Fiction---good fiction, anyway---is dream made flesh, given purpose and drive, and set on a quest to show us the best in us…

— Holly Lisle

Unless a writer lives with a periodic delusion of his greatness, he will not continue writing. He must believe, against all reason…

— Leonard Bishop

Purdom has created a major body of work. Thoughtful, humane, intelligent, extrapolative, involving, his stories are exactly the sort of thing our…

— Michael Swanwick

I always had a hard time with fiction. It does feel like driving a car in a clown suit. You're going somewhere,…

— Dave Eggers

My works are a direct response to the typical space opera. I grew tired of always reading about how the people with…

— Nathan Lowell

I was on a panel with light skinned Blacks and a famous gay science fiction writer, who were complaining about how Blacks…

— Ishmael Reed

The "great tradition" does not brook even the possibility of libidinal gratification between the pages as an end in itself, and FR…

— F. R. Leavis

Critical design aims to really push the boundaries of design and to reconsider the element of fiction.

— Nelly Ben Hayoun

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

— Harry Crews

So often in English fiction, people are either upper-class twits, or else they're knockabouts, less than human.

— Justin Cartwright

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

— Christopher Fry

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

— Genie Frisbee

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

— Erica Sehyun Song

“A novel, though fiction, often speaks to the largest truths.”

— Mark Rubinstein

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

— John Cheever

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

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

— C.G. Rousing

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

— Anonymous

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

— Mark Zero

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

— Twinkle Khanna