Fiction Quotes · Page 51

No one stays true. Its like an addiction cuz aint no one real...its all fiction.

— Anonymous

“The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.”

— Bret Easton Ellis

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

— Terry Pratchett

I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth." Homer Simpson

— Matt Groening

Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.

— Jasper Fforde

Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?

— Robert Charles Wilson

“The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.”

— Mark Twain

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.

— Anna Torv

Fiction tends to spread farther than nonfiction - and as a filmmaker, it's important to be cognizant of not perpetuating the same…

— Nia DaCosta

I may be the person who put "dieselpunk" into the conversation. I have always been a reader who reads in a really…

— Emily Barton

ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is…

— Ambrose Bierce

“I’m not above using unsavory beings to kick the Gods’ asses, but the Phantoms are too unpredictable for my taste,” I said.”

— Laura Kreitzer

It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be…

— Martin Rees

Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.

— Hilary Mantel

“When fiction has become reality, life may turn into a fairy tale or a firestorm. Tina, time has come to pull up…

— Erik Pevernagie

Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the…

— John Green

It is a work of psychogeography, albeit in a less explicit sense than Iain Sinclair's or Will Self's. It had to be…

— Teju Cole

“Now she has power and passion and the struggle has significance for me-let the momentary consequences be what they may. Suppose that…

— Soren Kierkegaard

I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people…

— Marc Jacobs

“The power of fiction is that it gives us, as readers, the opportunity to move inside another human being, to look out…

— Marion Dane Bauer

I don't think fake people living in a fake house in a fake suburb are any less dismissible or believable than a…

— Heidi Julavits

“I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the…

— Ray Bradbury

A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of…

— Leon Trotsky

The writer is often faced with two choices--turn away from the reality of life's intimidating complexity or conquer its mystery by battling…

— Chinua Achebe

“You are the Queen. You get to decide what is best for you and this kingdom.” 
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— Tricia Copeland

My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

— Tom Wolfe

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

— Anthony Burgess

Science fiction is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching.

— Zoe Saldana

“If he's like any other man I've ever met, it's not my smile he's going to be looking at.”

— Brad Thor

“Fiction merely allows us a glimpse of the alternative.”

— Anthony Horowitz

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

— Mike Mills

“Pastor McFucking Bride this . . . Pastor McFucking Bride that. Fuck him!”

— S.B. Redd

I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different.

— Kameron Hurley

[The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence.

— Mary Lee Settle

Science fiction is not necessarily either fiction or anything to do with science.

— Judith Merril

Science fiction tends to be philosophy for stupid people.

— Chuck Klosterman

So often in English fiction, people are either upper-class twits, or else they're knockabouts, less than human.

— Justin Cartwright

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

— Harry Crews

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

— Mark Twain

Critical design aims to really push the boundaries of design and to reconsider the element of fiction.

— Nelly Ben Hayoun