Fiction Quotes · Page 34

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides By the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil…

— Quentin Tarantino

“No, not really. But …” Okay, I couldn’t help but gloat a little. “She likes me.” Samedi didn’t even look at me.…

— Lia Habel

I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.

— Edwidge Danticat

Fictions of law must be consistent with justice.

— William Henry Maule

“A novel, though fiction, often speaks to the largest truths.”

— Mark Rubinstein

America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully…

— Karen Russell

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

— E. L. Doctorow

So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be…

— Robert Sheckley

When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.

— Michael Connelly

I really need to know where I'm going with fiction to write it in a way that at least I'm happy with.…

— Dave Barry

I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.

— Sloane Crosley

I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The Lost Wife' is one of…

— Lauren Weisberger

All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.

— Anonymous

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

— Colson Whitehead

“You may be a royal, and a monarch, but you know the High Council supplants your authority when it comes to the…

— Tricia Copeland

In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new…

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

“She died without us by her side, and now, we are left with the scars. In time, perhaps they will fade, but…

— Sophie Palmer

Physics has entered a remarkable era. Ideas that were once the realm of science fiction are now entering our theoretical — and…

— Lisa Randall

“I did infer, however, that submitting to melancholy would undo the labors of those who had come before me, that I had…

— Jabari Asim

“I blew into L.A. streaking down the freeway, the song "L.A. Woman" blasting out of the car speakers, the wind in my…

— Jim Cherry

[Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of…

— Emily Barton

There's no one 'right' way of making a science fiction movie; there's no one way of making any kind of movie, really!

— Nicolas Roeg

“The hamster-powered hat is the same as any other hat. It keeps your head warm and looks smart,” the inventor said. “The…

— Mark Jackman

Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real.

— Russell Smith

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

— Theodore Sturgeon