Fiction Quotes · Page 57

In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“My boy? he is even better than books. -fiction has nothing on you.”

— Amanda Lovelace

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

— Anonymous

I think all fiction should be fair game for the Christian market, except porn, of course.

— Anonymous

“Philippe to his mother "do stop chasing after a carriage that has a runaway mare.”

— E.L.R. Jones

“This isn't the road home. This is a road littered with questions that will inevitably lead to an answer.”

— Ryan S. Fortney

The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.

— Tom Clancy

I happen to be one of those rare actors that actually loves very intelligent and well-acted science fiction.

— Richard Hatch

Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“I've always thought that science and fiction writing have a lot in common because they're both about modeling reality.”

— Scott Westerfeld

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

— David Levithan

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

— Ray Bradbury

To think that humans evolved from lower species BUT the evolutionary process somehow came to a halt and we all arrived at…

— Jim Goad

“You will come across people who always affirm by everything you say, but at the hour of need, they simply disappear! Stay…

— K Hari Kumar

And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new…

— Barry B. Longyear

They couldn’t have known that even this was a lie—that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and…

— Lauren Oliver

Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of…

— Ray Bradbury

“Sabrina Thomas clutched the leather-bound notebook to her chest and tried not to be impatient as the elevator in the south tower…

— Anonymous

“C, it was like my breath was stolen. My heart seemed to merge with yours. When you came into my life, all…

— J.L. Clayton

“I unlocked the deadbolt and flung the door open, stepping back for Gabby to see exactly who it was. “Hello, Sara,” I…

— Laura Kreitzer

“Lyly screamed and ran to Tyler. “I can’t let you go until I tell you.” “Tell me what?” Tyler asked. “You’re the…

— Mary K. Savarese

“I felt so much older now, so much more responsible. I guess that there were some positive outcomes: I knew more things…

— Erica Sehyun Song

People read fiction... to learn something about how to live their lives.

— Ronald Sukenick

“Am Anfang war Gott? It may have been true, but it was not germane.”

— Stephen Craig

I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.

— George R. R. Martin

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

— Walker Percy

I read a lot of sci-fi when I was younger. Loved it from the literary point of view.

— Bonnie Hammer

“In life your rewards come from the gifts you give to others.”

— Ken Donaldson

“Jesus honey, your husband ain’t dead, he’s in hiding.” He growled, watching her visibly flinch. - Jase Devlin”

— Nina D'Angelo

“In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I believe the word "perfection" should be changed to "pure fiction" - it's just not possible!

— Arielle Ford

I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.

— Matthew Specktor

The Bible, I've said it before, is a beautifully written work of fiction.

— Janeane Garofalo

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

— Dean Koontz

“Do what you will, this life's a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.”

— William Blake

I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.

— Ranbir Kapoor

I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff.

— Terry Pratchett

Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination

— Jeanette Winterson