Fiction Quotes · Page 103

Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.

— Timothy Leary

“[Nathan] wasn't blindly obsessed with a possession. He wasn't crazy. He was a hero--a father who'd risked his life to rescue his…

— Randy Alcorn

I've always liked the fact that fiction takes all these pretty unquantifiable human feelings and experiences and projects them onto the page…

— Scott Bradfield

My mother fed my love of demons, science fiction, and paranormal. She was a devout horror movie fan who kept me up…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Working with Joe [Kosinski], definitely. I loved working with Joe. For a guy who doesn't really come from the fiction world -…

— James Frain

A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That…

— William Gibson

“It didn't take me long out there, in the landscapes my father had painted, to realize that as much as I loved…

— Geraldine Brooks

Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers?

— Jill Ker Conway

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

— Wally Lamb

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what…

— Colm Toibin

“The first thing you lose when you die is your motor skills.”

— John H. Matthews

“He never had been good at arguing with women; they tapped into pools of resentment over slights that had steeped for years.”

— Martin Cruz Smith

“Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.”

— Frederic Raphael

I think that fiction has a certain power.

— Jesmyn Ward

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

— Allen Ginsberg

Usually I read several books at a time - old books, new books, fiction, nonfiction, verse, anything - and when the bedside…

— Vladimir Nabokov

How do you document real life, when real life's getting more like fiction each day.

— Jonathan Larson

“Then, the door opens and there he is; silhouetted in the hall light. Long hair, long legs, and a heartbeat in tune…

— Hunter S. Jones

I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.

— Tom Stoppard

“She could hear the voice of her childhood, could see a younger version of herself plucking petals off a flower. He loves…

— L.A. Kuehlke

“If a woman were elected president, would our nation expect her husband to be the official White House host?”

— Venita Ellick

“In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for…

— Amor Towles

TV and film were always governing passions of mine, and that first wave of great HBO shows in the early years of…

— Nic Pizzolatto

Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me…

— John Green

Since truth is often stranger than fiction, fiction needs to be pretty weird

— Erik Meyer

“Can you imagine how many people got laid in here?" Abby said, walking to the other side of the Jacuzzi.”

— J.C. Henderson

Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and…

— Alice Munro

“It doesn’t matter what other people think when you’re right - John Cleaver”

— Dan Wells

I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that…

— Lalla Ward

“Nothing makes you think you might need years of therapy like saying the word breasts in front of your mother.”

— Katie McGarry

Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.

— Norman Spinrad

“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

Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“I took the pistol off the man and shot him with it in both of his eyes. Somewhere in the back of…

— Eli Wilde

I can't claim to be disenchanted "with the current state of fiction" because I read so little of it. My reading is…

— Cynthia Ozick

“A vida real não nos concede muitas possibilidades mais do que úteis que as pessoas podem ter na ficção.”

— Camilo Gomes Jr

“Grover spit expertly between his teeth. "You know, Nerburn," he said, "you're like those treaty negotiators we used to have to deal…

— Kent Nerburn

For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the…

— Mohsin Hamid

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of…

— Jerry Pournelle

I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because…

— Robert Greene