Fiction Quotes · Page 78

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

— Leo Rosten

God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.

— Michel Onfray

“Goodreads.com is actually about fiction not dreading goo. But I have a profile there, anyway...”

— Michael A. Arnzen

“What is imagination? I don’t believe in fiction. In my mind everything comes from a part of who a writer is.”

— Anonymous

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

— Mark Twain

I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.

— Haruki Murakami

“I’m in love with fiction. A fantasy that slips between my fingers when reality sets in.”

— Moryah DeMott

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

— David Frum

What seems real one moment is fiction the next and gone out of existence the moment after that. Nostalgia is the greatest…

— David Budbill

I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology…

— Alaina Huffman

“Science-Fiction, in which the revealed truths of Science may be given interwoven with a pleasing story which may itself be poetical and…

— Anonymous

“Silver constellations sparkled across the velvet sky, revealing the mythical creatures that lingered in the valley of stars.”

— Erin Forbes

Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting.

— Francois Truffaut

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

— Jennifer Weiner

Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed,…

— Jennifer Weiner

“The northern star changes its position every ten thousand years, but friendships can last for all eternity. — RJPeters”

— R.J. Peters

Love itself is the most elitist of passions. It acquires its stereoscopic substance and perspective only in the context of culture, for…

— Joseph Brodsky

“He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn’t sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity…

— Christy A. Campbell

“… it would even be inexact to say that I thought of those who read it as readers of my book. Because…

— Marcel Proust

My non-fiction films are pretty much fiction, or at least close... It's all "movies" for me. I never have searched for a…

— Werner Herzog

Writing fiction is like music. You have to keep it moving. You can have slow movements but there has to be a…

— John Updike

I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short…

— Lorin Stein

That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly…

— Anthony Holden

One of the more depressing things about reading your fiction 25 years later, or 10 years later, is you realize the only…

— Samuel R. Delany

This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.

— David Gemmell

I think there's nothing more wonderful than using fiction to reflect real-world cultural ideas.

— Jesse Eisenberg

I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.

— Gary Numan

“I have you with me, and I'm terrified you'll disappear.”

— Jodi LaPalm

“She fixed a smile that she hoped looked authentic. Pretending to be content continued to be hard work.”

— Stacy Hawkins Adams

The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

— Anonymous

“The advice is a call to empathy, the ultimate act of the imagination, and the true ground of all fiction.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“Have you lost your mind? What have I told you Charlie about whales? You can’t MANHANDLE THEM!”

— Erica Sehyun Song

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

— Oscar Wilde

“Everything's science fiction until someone makes it science fact.”

— Marie Lu

I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.

— Alice Hoffman

For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.

— Jill McCorkle

Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics?

— Christopher Moore

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

— Octavia Butler

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

— Damon Lindelof

When you're writing your own fiction, you don't have to ride two horses.

— Elliott Colla