Fiction Quotes · Page 83

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

— Wally Lamb

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.

— Peter Straub

“Writing isn't black magic. You just have to come up with an idea...”

— Karl Ove Knausgård

Sex, without society as its landscape, has never been of much interest to fiction.

— Elizabeth Hardwick

“It gets kind of zen after awhile, life is a journey, time is a river, the door is ajar.”

— Jim Butcher

Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media.

— Robert Lutz

My writing, it's mostly fiction, but I want it to feel intimate and real.

— Martine Syms

“We're living in science fiction, but we don't realize it.”

— Terry Pratchett

When you're making something big, whether it's long-form fiction or a big piece of software, whatever that is, you're having a very…

— David Wroblewski

At the beginning of my career, I shot a lot more documentaries because I liked the adventure, and probably also because it…

— Maryse Alberti

“Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction.”

— Raymond A. Mar

Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I…

— Louise Mensch

The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was…

— Lucio Russo

“Across his forehead was stamped the word WORTHLESS. How ironic. Exactly what someone might find stamped on his own forehead if they…

— James L. Rubart

I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.

— George R. R. Martin

I'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you can learn to do…

— Robert J. Sawyer

My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a…

— Charles Stross

“Bearing witness from the sides of the room, ten or more lepers shouted at the bizarre scene, “Diable! Diable!” And then chants…

— Cole Alpaugh

F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for theeighteenth century reader, the most…

— Angela Carter

I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped…

— Daniel Tammet

As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies,as a form…

— J. M. Coetzee

Being a fan of science fiction, I collect a lot of science fiction art work and so if you go to my…

— Len Wiseman

Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler…

— Charles Frazier

To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in…

— Louis Auchincloss

Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure.

— Herman Melville

As a science fiction fan, the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award mean a lot to me.

— Liu Cixin

There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.

— David Twohy

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

— Mark Twain

My grandfather read the 'John Carter of Mars' books to me when I was young.

— Daryl Sabara

Science fiction can be very relevant, could be good literature.

— Alastair Reynolds

It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.

— Karen Thompson Walker

I write fiction, there's no guarantee that what I say is truthful.

— Steve Toltz

Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.

— Paul Verhoeven

“Life is not a matter of fact. What is fact or fiction is a matter of perspective.”

— Anonymous

“I wanted to protect her, and, if I couldn’t do that, I’d at least be there for her. (Eric)”

— Shannon A. Thompson

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

— Joan D. Vinge

The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Peter loved to hear the story of how his father tried to steal the sun. ”

— Douglas Weissman

“There's no such thing as fiction", Annie told him once. "If you can imagine something, then it's happened.”

— Charles de Lint

“Like the 'good' characters in literature, the sane don't have any memorable lines.”

— Adam Phillips Going Sane