Fiction Quotes · Page 34

“Real life. The greatest interactive fiction of them all.”

— Donald E. Westlake

“I have you with me, and I'm terrified you'll disappear.”

— Jodi LaPalm

“She fixed a smile that she hoped looked authentic. Pretending to be content continued to be hard work.”

— Stacy Hawkins Adams

The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

— Anonymous

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

— Oscar Wilde

“Have you lost your mind? What have I told you Charlie about whales? You can’t MANHANDLE THEM!”

— Erica Sehyun Song

“The advice is a call to empathy, the ultimate act of the imagination, and the true ground of all fiction.”

— Siri Hustvedt

For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.

— Jill McCorkle

A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer…

— John L'Heureux

“He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a…

— Joseph Conrad

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

— Al Gore

“A brave new future had been charted, and none of them knew where it was going to lead. From my upcoming novel,Frontiers,…

— Jeff W. Horton

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

— Manuel Puig

What fiction does is bring you closer to the essence of truth, as opposed to simply giving you the truth. And there's…

— Sarnath Banerjee

“It was as if his fingers knew things, but they couldn't show him unless they were moving, touching. He had to think…

— Laura Lippman

[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what…

— James Gunn

“Solitude of this kind makes me unaware. The roots that bind my person, makes me yearn for freedom and more. I wish…

— Pooja Subramanian

There are vast differences between scripts and stories, of course. Few fiction writers would want to give up the opportunity to explore…

— Les Standiford

Extra dimensional theories are sometimes considered science fiction with equations. I think that's a wrong attitude. I think extra dimensions are with…

— Leonard Susskind

You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that…

— Libba Bray

“Beauty and perfection do not guarantee grace and fulfillment and are always sacrificed. Life itself seems a ritual of sacrifice, and the…

— Kate Horsley

There are three things I look for in a story - it has to be a thriller; I cannot see myself writing…

— Ashwin Sanghi

The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

As soon as you start doing that - changing things - it seems self-evident to me that you've entered the world of…

— Nicholson Baker

I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.

— Alice Hoffman

“Everything's science fiction until someone makes it science fact.”

— Marie Lu

This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.

— David Gemmell

I think there's nothing more wonderful than using fiction to reflect real-world cultural ideas.

— Jesse Eisenberg

I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.

— Gary Numan

“I’m in love with fiction. A fantasy that slips between my fingers when reality sets in.”

— Moryah DeMott

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

— David Frum

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

— Mark Twain

“What is imagination? I don’t believe in fiction. In my mind everything comes from a part of who a writer is.”

— Anonymous

I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.

— Haruki Murakami

I'm a fan of hard science fiction, which is science fiction that is possible.

— Sal Khan

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.

— Stephen King

“I did not want to set my world alight, to watch it burn because of the sister I had come to love…

— Sarah Swainson

I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.

— Jami Attenberg

Comics also led a lot of young people to science fiction.

— Kerry James Marshall

“Goodreads.com is actually about fiction not dreading goo. But I have a profile there, anyway...”

— Michael A. Arnzen