Fiction Quotes · Page 73

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

— Tom Stoppard

“To write you dreams of fantasy, is to create fantasy in another's dreams.”

— Rob Shepherd

There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.

— Donald Barthelme

“I want either the fiction to be real or me to be fictional.”

— Andrea Závodská

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

— John le Carre

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

— Julius Lester

Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character.

— Quentin Tarantino

If you're a drama writer, obviously you always have to tell the truth; there's no element of fiction in at all.

— Jed Mercurio

Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense.

— William Bernhardt

The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and…

— Umberto Eco

British and Canadian sci-fi strikes me as more forward-looking than its American counterpart, as evidenced by the success of Iain M. Banks,…

— Nick Sagan

“Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy…

— Therisa Peimer

Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant…

— China Mieville

“I took one of my hands in the other, tried to imagine what it would feel like if it was another person's…

— Gail Honeyman

“We want to believe that this life is longer than it is, but in the grand scheme of the universe our existence…

— Paul S. Anderson

I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting…

— Kevin J. Anderson

“Juliet and Romeo Awake the scene, a twilight chamber’d dream, Two angels both alike in dignity: One imaged misadventure on the screen;…

— Tiger Lewis

If I describe a person's physical appearance in my writing, which I often do, especially in fiction, I never say someone is…

— Jamaica Kincaid

For me, fantasy and speculative science fiction are the genres that feel closest to how I feel about being alive. Like, when…

— Brit Marling

I usually get up not before 9. I have a huge library - I'm a big fan of Scandinavian crime fiction -…

— Anthony Geary

“We need to talk," he insisted, opening the door to his jeep that was parked next to my car. I was still…

— S.G. Holster

“Semilla’s Phlegm-O-Matic promptly made an observation. ‘Wow Semilla look at that shuttle.’ ‘Keep your voice down Raymond we’re in danger,’ Semilla hissed.…

— A.R. Merrydew

“He who writes books that aim to convince is a comedian, too, just a comedian. What has he got to offer others,…

— J.M.G. Le Clézio

From the viewpoint of the writer, the most significant aspect of fantasy and science fiction is that stories of these kinds are…

— Brian Stableford

“Keeping up the fiction. You have to keep it up, sometimes, no matter how you feel.”

— Stephen King

I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

— Dan Aykroyd

“There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly.”

— Anthony Burgess

The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion

— Donna J. Haraway

“The poor were born survivors, but their equity was bound to the land—dwelling, farm, animals.”

— Isham Cook

In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady.

— Roger Corman

There's something to be said for a likable character, but fiction has a way of upending our ordinary standards.

— Ben Dolnick

I have not done too many fiction shows, yes, people love me for my roles on TV.

— Karan Kundrra

There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction.

— Catherine Jinks

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

— Frank Kermode

We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.

— Ilsa J. Bick

I'm a huge science fiction fan, and I'm a huge fan of J. Michael Straczynski.

— Jamie Clayton

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“...sense of reality is important in any work of fiction...”

— Stephen King

“Xavier was like some sort of sex drug that numbed my mind and clouded it. He made me stupid.”

— Kathey Gray

You feel undervalued when you write the kind of fiction I write.

— Lisa Jewell