Fiction Quotes · Page 214

[The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence.

— Mary Lee Settle

I've always thought of my writing as a spiritual practice. But I think that fiction is the most supernatural kind of writing…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

— Neil Gaiman

“We laughed as we ducked behind a pile of snow. Then our brothers came charging through the barrier, sending the four of…

— Erica Sehyun Song

God, or rather the fiction of God, is thus the sanction and the intellectual and moral cause of all the slavery on…

— Mikhail Bakunin

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

— Marcel Proust

“I don't know if you've ever been covered head to toe in prickle bush, but let me tell you, it's not a…

— Elizabeth Newton

Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to…

— Marilynne Robinson

“We were like wanderers in a desert, blessed with a rare downpour, but unable to store the rain.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

I never have an alter ego in the movies. That's a fiction that the press has made up over the years, and…

— Woody Allen

“Entering the foyer, Royale already decided that he would thank Shake once more for being by his side at Keena’s recital. But…

— S.B. Redd

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

— Michio Kaku

“Beneath Albright’s office, the colliery sprawled across the hillside, red brick buildings scattered as though hurled from a great height, a hotchpotch…

— Kit Habianic

Humanity lives in its fiction.

— Blaise Cendrars

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“It is foolish to believe that you are insignificant.”

— Erin Forbes

Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity…

— Tom Robbins

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need…

— Al Gore

“Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can't possibly act on.”

— Stefan Molyneux

They [academy writing programs] have no concept that the world has changed, that publishing has changed, that filmmaking has changed, and if…

— Tod Goldberg

What I love about the 'Alien' franchise is I would do all kinds of films - dramas, comedies, whatever - and every…

— Sigourney Weaver

“Don't ruin a good story with the facts.”

— Jerry Guarino

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

— Ralph Ellison

Now, I'm a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people's imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn't.…

— Joel C. Rosenberg