Fiction Quotes · Page 54

“In my life I haven’t done anything worth writing about, but that’s OK. That’s why I write fiction.”

— Jarod Kintz

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

— Peter Straub

Even as a little kid, I told lots of stories, and I wrote them down, and I loved reading fiction and fantasy.

— Sabaa Tahir

You may not be a fan of Twitter-fiction. That's okay. There are novels out there for you - big ones.

— Celeste Ng

“As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began.”

— Richard Peck

[I like to read] spiritual books, non-fiction, fiction, I have my moods.

— MC Lyte

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

— William Mapother

I'm not a great 'Star Trek' fan, but I love science fiction.

— John de Lancie

“The only one everlasting love is the unrealized one. The love to this thing that you’d never had. Behind it is hidden…

— Alexandar Tomov

China lacks good science fiction, but not mediocre science fiction. Even so, the gap between Chinese and American sci-fi is still very…

— Liu Cixin

Like a grindhouse version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wallwork's fiction is smart, innovative, and a hell of a lot of fun.

— Carlton Mellick III

“The truth is, time marches on and you have two choices: You move forward, come what may, and you experience all the…

— Suzanne Palmieri

“He had to die someday too. He might do it on sheets with a six-hundred-plus thread count, but he'd die just the…

— John H. Matthews

I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was…

— Noah Baumbach

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable…

— John Dalton

Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea…

— Dacia Maraini

“He pulled me toward him, and all I could do was stand there with arms at my sides and head against his…

— Jodi LaPalm

“I’m a storyteller. I’ll work to make you believe me. Throw in some real stuff, change a few details, add the certainty…

— Dorothy Allison

My friend Ian Hagemann, a regular at Wiscon, once said on a panel that when he reads science fiction futures that are…

— Nalo Hopkinson

The thing is that my first novel, which was basically a mystery adventure story, won quite an important award in Spain for…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the…

— Rebecca L. Walkowitz

Three characteristics a work of fiction must possess in order to be successful: 1. It must have a precise and suspenseful plot.…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

I've always found that when you're trying to create illusions with sound, especially in a science fiction or fantasy movie, that pulling…

— Ben Burtt

“Why would I what?” Will asked, wanting another bite of his burger. “Why would you risk your job teaching some stupid fantasy…

— Amy Lane

First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.

— Clive James

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. ”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

“The arrow's away and you're pulling the second before the first hits its mark”

— Jennifer M Zeiger

I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

— Paul Auster

A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.

— Robert J. Sawyer

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

— Peter Mullan

“If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee?”

— Ryan Goodrich

The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.”

— Frederic Raphael

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

— Oscar Wilde

The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.

— Cynthia Ozick

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

— Mae West

I'm not actually that bothered about the 'science fiction-ness' of 'Doctor Who.'

— Alastair Reynolds

“life rarely finds its exact likeness in a novel, that is hardly fiction’s purpose,”

— Katie Kitamura

The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.

— Joel Gretsch

“If a woman were elected president, would our nation expect her husband to be the official White House host?”

— Venita Ellick