Fiction Quotes · Page 149

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

— Sean Durkin

The truth is, I can't help the way people perceive anything, from the role of financial industry in the economic crisis, to…

— Erin Duffy

“If you didn't already know, game show talent works fewer days a year than almost every profession, except maybe members of Congress.”

— John Bennardo

We're trying to make something that lasts in language and there's no question that many fiction writers began as poets and it's…

— Edward Hirsch

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

— Patrick Rothfuss

The reason truth is stranger than fiction is that truth has a better author.

— Stuart Taylor

Your eyes wider than distance, this life is sweeter than fiction.

— Taylor Swift

“...Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.”

— Brittany Hawes

“As we sin, so must we suffer.”

— Stephen A. Reger

It's said that if two documentary filmmakers meet they talk about the world, if two fiction filmmakers meet they talk about the…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

Justin Hermann is one of the best new voices in short fiction-deep and entertaining as hell, with many funny lines, unexpected turns…

— Josip Novakovich

“Laughter comes from living." I shrug, try to sound indifferent. "I've never really been alive before.”

— Tahereh Mafi

Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much…

— Charles de Lint

“The Tanzanian told her that all fiction was therapy, some sort of therapy, no matter what anybody said.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present.

— Don Hertzfeldt

“Being a single parent on a part-time basis is tricky to navigate. That is what a racing widow has to do.”

— Aly Grady

Myth is very powerful and fiction is very powerful.

— Jeff Feuerzeig

I'm just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It's great to sit in the editing room with the director and…

— Gale Anne Hurd

“Am Anfang war Gott? It may have been true, but it was not germane.”

— Stephen Craig

I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much…

— Emma Donoghue

I grew up reading crime fiction mysteries, true crime - a lot of true crime - and it is traditionally a male…

— Megan Abbott

Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' comics have a drizzly, musty gothic ambience - the same fetid air that H. P. Lovecraft circulated in his…

— Elvis Mitchell

The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs…

— Karl Rove

“I wanted to survive—not for my kind, but for trust, for friendship, for another being. (Eric)”

— Shannon A. Thompson

“She was thirty-two, but drew blank on various periods of her life. In her own peculiar turn of phrase, they were like…

— Fuminori Nakamura

I'm definitely excited by big ideas, both in what I write and what I read. Most days, reality is so mind-numbingly dull…

— Ron Currie Jr

As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.

— Buzz Aldrin

Fiction can serve in a non-threatening way to open minds and, I hope, hearts to the Word of God.

— Francine Rivers

We physicists don't like to admit it, but some of us are closet science fiction fans. We hate to admit it because…

— Michio Kaku

Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.

— Hugh Howey

My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will…

— Neil Gaiman

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

— Anne Lamott

And I sense it was a rather constructed, almost half narrative fiction film in some ways. A lot of it was staged…

— Terry Zwigoff

“ Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt. ”

— Patrick Ness

At least I hope - that the fiction I've written so far has flaws but has mostly been successful.

— William T. Vollmann

The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to…

— Eduardo Galeano

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

— Ben Marcus

“Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87”

— Mona Rodriguez FORTY YEARS IN A DAY

One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is…

— China Mieville

In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that…

— David Mitchell