Fiction Quotes · Page 61

One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.

— H. G. Wells

Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.

— Alexander McCall Smith

“The features of character are carved out of adversity.”

— Rick Barnett

I grew up on British fiction, and I write perhaps more directly out of that tradition.

— Claire Messud

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

— Italo Calvino

“Nashville has always been competitive. My granddaddy called it the Hillbilly Babylon.”

— Hunter S. Jones

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

— Mark Twain

“Wherever you are lacking, your obedience in working on that before your mate comes is vital.”

— Angelo M. Swinson

“This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what…

— Ernest Hemingway

'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm…

— L.A. Weatherly

“I got the job as a Bingo host and did better than they imagined. Never before had they had an emcee so…

— John Bennardo

I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over,…

— Dylan Moran

I don't understand and don't enjoy sci-fi, and it's just that if people aren't real, and they don't live in a real…

— Peter Morgan

I think people do sci-fi a huge disservice by lumping it as some sort of bizarre subculture genre when I think everybody's…

— Mark Sheppard

“He snatched up the reins again, holding her tight. There was nothing affectionate or remotely romantic about the gesture; it was desperation,…

— S.A. Chakraborty

“As he drove away from his handiwork, knowing he'd left no survivors, the killer looked at the rising smoke and gave himself…

— Peprah Boasiako

An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format…

— Charles Stross

You've been gone so long from all that you know. It's been shuffled aside as you bask in the glow. All the…

— Sarah McLachlan

Fiction is more dangerous than nonfiction because it can seduce better. I think we all know this, know that deeper truths can…

— Chris Abani

The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through…

— Tom Robbins

This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them.…

— Neil Gaiman

“Before the next minute had passed, they had all fallen to the ground. Just like that. As though someone had reached inside…

— Nancy Farmer

“As a child of privilege, no one is your friend. They will claim to be your friends, they will laugh at your…

— Orson Scott Card

I have not much faith in women in fiction… Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy…

— Willa Cather

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

— John McGahern

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

— Gao Xingjian

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.

— Gloria Vanderbilt

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

— Thomas Perry

“I find the title How to Be Good. Curious, I open it up. I'm disappointed to find it's fiction.”

— Jael McHenry

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“They were rebellious through their artistic expression and their uplifting spirits”

— Evan Meekins

I used to read a good deal of science fiction when I was a boy.

— Steven Weinberg

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to…

— Ridley Scott

“Nonfiction is a form of literature that lies halfway between fiction and fact.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

— Ernest Hemingway

“I hope to God there are no wars for him or anyone to fight in after this one.”

— Mark Ellis

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.

— Cynthia Kadohata

Too many writers of fiction don't give the reader enough credit.

— Jonathan Evison

“Oh dios mio, she makes me burn, she makes me need. She is etching herself into mi alma”

— P.T. Macias

fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.

— Isabel Allende