Fiction Quotes · Page 32

My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.

— Michael Sheen

“All the real secrets are buried, and only ghosts speak the truth.”

— Anthony Hyde

I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction.

— Winona Ryder

“Fiction here is likely to contain more truth than fact.”

— Virginia Woolf

Because reading is a way of putting yourself in someone else's experience, especially reading fiction.

— Pete Buttigieg

The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum

— Dean Cavanagh

I'd always wanted to write crime fiction. I loved Nancy Drew.

— Marcia Clark

Sci-fi is speculative fiction. 'Field of Dreams' is sci-fi.

— Bonnie Hammer

When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to…

— William Gibson

A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at…

— Theodore Sturgeon

“I longed to have my mama come to me and sing me a song that settled me down while she rubbed my…

— Steven Decker

I have lots of fiction in the drawer, but the essays I mostly kick out into the world, ready or not. Fiction…

— Charles D'Ambrosio

Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught…

— James Mackintosh

I am, of comics I was never as big of a fan as I probably could have been I suppose but I'm…

— Brandon Routh

Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a…

— Orhan Pamuk

“A writer looks at an issue and asks, 'What if this were to occur? Or what if that was thrown into the…

— Venita Ellick

“All writers struggle at some point with the problem of balance between authority and involvement, seduction and revelation. Specifically, beginning writers wonder…

— Julie Checkoway

Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, quotation,…

— Douglas Crimp

Wesley Stace has always been the only genuinely gifted fiction writer who also happens to be a rock star, but Wonderkid is…

— Sam Lipsyte

The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the…

— Flannery O'Connor

“His cell-phone rang. Dominic fumbled for it on the nightstand next to the couch, the dim lights not helping his endeavour. He…

— T.P. Grish

Well, good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort…

— Nicolas Cage

The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue.…

— Henry Louis Gates

Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It's about expressing the idea that the world is going to…

— Greg van Eekhout

In fiction, conceptualizing, I've found, produces dull and over-controlled text.

— George Saunders

“In fiction if nowhere else, I must have a little meaning, a little coherence, or I will go mad.”

— Anne Rice

I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.

— Colson Whitehead

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.”

— Sara Sheridan

I ran away to sea. I know that only happens in fiction. But it's what I did.

— Sterling Hayden

I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.

— Rupert Sanders

“It's just like an alcoholic to think he's doing the Zombie Apocalypse wrong.”

— Michele W. Miller

“there were worse things than feeling guilty, like feeling dead.”

— Lori Brighton

It may not be 'mainstream,' but there's always a market for science fiction.

— David Hewlett

“Baby, God ain't gonna bless you with another woman's husband, not today, not tomorrow, not ever.”

— Tracy L. Darity

As a genre-bending blend of police procedural and science fiction, The Silk Code delivers on its promises.

— Gerald Jonas

What fiction could match - in drama or suspense - man's first walk on the Moon?

— Leonard Nimoy

Fiction that does not acknowledge this at least tacitly is not true.

— Marilynne Robinson

“Elizabeth felt as if every cell in her body was aflame with desire.”

— Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

— Eleanor Catton