Fiction Quotes · Page 50

Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.

— Steven Amsterdam

If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.

— Veronica Roth

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

— Ralph Peters

“Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.”

— Emma Donoghue

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

— Walker Percy

fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.

— Helen McCloy

Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind.

— Vernon Reid

I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to…

— Joel Edgerton

Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short…

— Tom Paulin

I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more…

— Joe Morton

I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing…

— Aleksandar Hemon

No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.

— H. P. Lovecraft

One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting…

— Francine du Plessix Gray

Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative…

— Kristina McMorris

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching…

— Fay Weldon

People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not…

— Geoff Dyer

My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous…

— Rainn Wilson

As the days piled up into weeks, and the weeks turned into months, and fall slid into winter, I realized one of…

— Jennifer Weiner

A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should…

— Anonymous

Captain Crawford didn't like the idea of any kind of murder, but he went at it patiently and honestly and with none…

— Leslie Ford

I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by…

— Stanley Schmidt

So, the kind of precious memories about being black for my generation won't exist for my kids' and grandkids' generations unless we…

— Henry Louis Gates

I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use…

— Sefi Atta

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people…

— Jodi Picoult

A magician pulls a rabbit from a hat, and actors pull truth from fiction.

— Mia Goth

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

— Frederik Pohl

“there are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done”

— Evan Meekins

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

— Leonard Susskind

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.

— Jesmyn Ward

“It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. —Mark Twain”

— Oliver Benjamin

“Bonnie, believe in me. I’ll save you. I remember how to fly.”

— L.J. Smith

“One doesn't intentionally to alter the truth, just enhance it and make it more memorable.”

— John Alexander

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

— Antonia Fraser

“How can I be more important than someone else? Isn’t every life important?”

— Shelley K. Wall

“Fiction can do more than entertain you; it can change you”

— alisa hope wagner

Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.

— Paul S. Kemp

Even if I am short of EMIs, I will not do fiction on TV. I might as well open a shop.

— Sunil Grover

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

— Richard Hughes

Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction.

— Mark Hamill