Fiction Quotes

I don't read fiction.

— John W. Henry

I hate science fiction.

— James Dyson

I love sci-fi and fantasy.

— Amber Benson

I love science fiction.

— Anonymous

I've always liked SyFy.

— Lance Henriksen

“Being safe is fiction.”

— Tom Hodgkinson

I tend to read non-fiction.

— Gary Oldman

My fan fiction is canon.

— Dwayne McDuffie

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

— Alfred Adler

I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.

— Michael Morpurgo

“I like fiction and the history...Great!”

— Anonymous

“You don't turn your back on your destiny.”

— Trine Villemann

“Most fan fiction is terrible.”

— Neal Pollack

Most historians are engaged in fiction.

— Peter Morgan

“Shadows could be anywhere in blackness. (Eric)”

— Shannon A. Thompson

I think I do more fiction than autobiography.

— Martine Syms

A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.

— Alaa Al Aswany

“Remember this one thing baby girl, women don’t juggle…we diversify!”

— Iesha S. Walker

“He had no idea of my misery. It would have surprised him to think that I was a human creature with a…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction...

— Richard Dawkins

“Don't worry,' my girl said, 'I'll teach you to outwit pity.”

— Danielle Bennett

“We built that Wendy House our own selves, for Wendy! And you can't keep a Wendy out of her own Wendy House!”

— Geraldine McCaughrean

“Like a porcelain facade, her outer shell was breaking away.”

— L.A. Kuehlke

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

— Jon Weisman

I think I was shown Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas at seven or eight. That's really bad. I think I've turned out all…

— Ed Speleers

I had a long writing history behind me before I got into anything in film. It comprehended science fiction, it comprehended historical,…

— William Monahan

You can't believe anything that's written in an historical novel, and yet the author's job is always to create a believable world…

— Justin Cartwright

I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.

— Ryan Gosling

“She looked so beautiful, with every smile of hers, I was falling for her. She had the perfect set of teeth for…

— Pritam Banikk

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then…

— Scott Thompson

I was 12. Our ,teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make…

— John Burnham Schwartz

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.

— Hilma Wolitzer

Fantasy involves that which general opinion regards as impossible; science fiction involves that which general opinion regards as possible under the right…

— Daryl Gregory

“All history is fictionalised narration of an opinion and good authors keep coming up with new opinions on existing narrations. Those who…

— R. N. Prasher

No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his…

— Rebecca West

“I was an utterance in absentia. I was a forgotten word, uttered and mislaid long ago. I was the word that existed…

— Faiqa Mansab

“In Hamilton 's The Universe Wreckers ... it was in that novel that, for the first time, I learned Neptune had a…

— Isaac Asimov

“When you mix Science Fiction with Fantasy you don't have a pure genre, the two are, to a professional separate genres. I…

— L. Ron Hubbard

“Look, girls know when they’re cute,” he said. “You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in…

— Daniel Amory

In prose fiction the freedom to work honestly exists, although you may have to fight for it. In those other areas of…

— James Kelman