Fiction Quotes · Page 48

I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.

— Randy Alcorn

Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies.

— John Twelve Hawks

I love writing fiction and can do it anywhere - I once even missed a flight because I was so engrossed.

— Prue Leith

I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.

— Brian Aldiss

“Life is the courier of the universal brilliance." Elysse”

— Elysse Poetis

“His kiss was light but lingering, like smoke from shivering lips on a freezing winter morning.”

— Rebecca Berto

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

— Rudy Rucker

I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life.

— Anthony Doerr

So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's…

— Jerry Pournelle

My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for…

— Daniel Handler

Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction…

— Brad Holland

Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down…

— Rebecca West

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up…

— Neil Gaiman

I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because…

— Katee Sackhoff

I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's…

— Paul Haggis

Science fiction is where I started out, really. When I was a kid, I was a complete addict of science fiction. It…

— Salman Rushdie

Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want…

— David Foster Wallace

Herein find fiction full of whimsy, wit, hurt, and terror. Wicked, as in wickedly funny, is in the mix, too, along with…

— Christine Schutt

Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs…

— Ben Shapiro

“Lucy: I don't feel like talking about college. It increases my stress level. James: And increased stress levels lead to hair loss.…

— Kristen Tracy

“I have seen many cases like N. during the five years I've been in practice. I sometimes picture these unfortunates as men…

— Stephen King

When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you.…

— Oscar Hijuelos

Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing…

— Walter Mosley

“In his entire life, Father Abaddon Sohar had never seen anything like what was in that cell, and he knew instantly that at least…

— Stephen A. Reger

Fiction. . . . It's like goading a mongoose and a cobra into battle and staying with them to see who wins.

— Shauna Singh Baldwin

“Her scream of utter horror and fright was a sound that no one in the chamber would ever forget. ~Crispin.~”

— J.L. Clayton

I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.

— Kate Grenville

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

— Orson Scott Card

“An author of fiction is a god of the world he creates. But it must be a world others want to inhabit.”

— Raul Ramos y Sanchez

Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.

— Diana Gabaldon

Since truth is often stranger than fiction, fiction needs to be pretty weird

— Erik Meyer

“Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made by your own hand.”

— Y.K. Raikou

I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

— Ira Glass

Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

— Janette Rallison

I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.

— Virginia Woolf

“Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold.”

— George Orwell

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

— William H. Gass

Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

— Peter Carey

“(F)iction is...what ought to have been, not what actually was. At least, not exactly.”

— Charles McCarry