Fiction Quotes · Page 77

“His blue eyes slice through me and make me wish I hadn't come.”

— Kathey Gray

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.

— Joan Didion

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

— Neil Gaiman

Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi.

— John Rhys-Davies

“Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap.”

— Stephen King

“I look up at the sky again and whisper, ‘I will live for you.”

— Emma Thomas

The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.

— Robert Penn Warren

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

— Henry Rollins

I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the…

— Don DeLillo

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.

— Ken MacLeod

I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having…

— Meg Cabot

I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction…

— Alastair Reynolds

Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.

— Colum McCann

I do find stories - or literary fiction - an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine…

— Jim Shepard

“Can't say I've ever been too fond of beginnings, myself. Messy little things. Give me a good ending anytime. You know where…

— Neil Gaiman

There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the…

— Flannery O'Connor

“*Story of a Girl By:Sara Zarr *Lexile:760 SRC:12 pts. *Personal Issues *Choice of getting a job to move out *Major Choice *In…

— Sara Zarr

We thought it was only in science fiction that things created by humans could actually take over what is inherently our human…

— Ed Ayres

I write fiction longhand. That's not so much about rejecting technology as being unable to write fiction on a computer for some…

— Jennifer Egan

American Morons is the work of an original. Like Hitchcock or Ramsey Campbell, the style is precise, alert, and well-mannered, inviting us…

— Dennis Etchison

For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst…

— Jonathan Lethem

“I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created…

— Atul Purohit

Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe…

— Ira Glass

“Strength and victory... What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear.”

— Simona Panova

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

— Aneurin Bevan

My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.

— Lev Grossman

Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.

— Gore Vidal

Science fiction is not quirky anymore; we live in a futuristic world now.

— Bonnie Hammer

I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.

— Ivan Reitman

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.

— Scott Turow

I collect and read as many books about music and film as I do fiction.

— George Pelecanos

Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.

— Octavia E. Butler

“He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face.”

— Priya Ardis

We couldn't own Sci Fi; it's a genre. But we can own Syfy.

— Bonnie Hammer

I'm a fan of hard science fiction, which is science fiction that is possible.

— Sal Khan

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.

— Stephen King

Comics also led a lot of young people to science fiction.

— Kerry James Marshall

I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.

— Jami Attenberg

“I did not want to set my world alight, to watch it burn because of the sister I had come to love…

— Sarah Swainson