Fiction Quotes · Page 49

A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.

— Thomas M. Disch

“Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.” Chat. British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.”

— Priya Ardis

I don't think you could write fiction or create art unless you are sort of a positive person.

— David Means

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

— Rudy Rucker

People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.

— Cameron Winklevoss

for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

— Ellen Glasgow

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

— Fay Weldon

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

— Franklin P. Adams

“We have our stories, and we speak of them, and weave them into other people's stories - that's how it goes, does…

— Susan Fletcher

I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn't set out…

— Karen Thompson Walker

It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down…

— Lembit Opik

I get offered a lot of science fiction work and there is a new project in the pipeline called Master Race, set…

— Jeremy Bulloch

I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with…

— Daphne du Maurier

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that…

— Hooman Majd

There's a market for fiction based on financial services. People wanted me to write stories based on this sector. There's a gap…

— Ravi Subramanian

“Take a scientific fact or theory, add a futuristic or other-worldly setting, stir in an imaginative plot and fascinating characters, and a…

— Yvonne Coleman

As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are…

— Anonymous

“Memory is fiction . . . All memory is a way of reconstructing the past. . . The act of narrating a…

— Damon Galgut

I think the MFA programs have had a real effect on the state of American fiction, but I don't think it's a…

— Chad Harbach

So much of what I am doing in my fiction is just trying to get into interesting places in terms of language…

— George Saunders

The basic problem is not political, it is apolitical and human. One of the most important things to do is to keep…

— Thomas Merton

I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something…

— J. G. Ballard

“Anne has small superstitions which she uses to dispel anxieties. For instance, if she can make it to the fourth stain on…

— Megan Boyle

“The love that we feel for each other is not about the worldly things, those materialistic possessions, or great looks either. It’s…

— Ankita Chadha

“We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion.”

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

I have always been a fan of genre stuff and fantasy and sci-fi.

— Travis Beacham

I was always into science fiction and I always liked sci-fi. Aliens! Spaceships! And all that stuff.

— Marky Ramone

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

— Walter Salles

Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon.

— Ron Carlson

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

— Jean Baudrillard

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

— Aldous Huxley

I think both you and I, we live in a world of fiction and stories.

— Regina Spektor

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

— Robert Staughton Lynd

This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.

— Michael Crichton

“Don't forget to wind the restricted clock and put the confidential cat out.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

I have never suggested any principled difference between the natural and social sciences.

— Noam Chomsky

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

— Taiye Selasi

“The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction.”

— Donald Miller

Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact.

— Michael Bierut

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

— Irvine Welsh