Fiction Quotes · Page 65

“Let us say that science fiction is a kind of conceptual disorientation of the familiar.”

— Adam Roberts

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

— Rian Johnson

There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.

— Joan Robinson

I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.

— Dale Peck

I like fiction set in the South, and I'm a fan of literary westerns.

— George Pelecanos

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

— Anonymous

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

— Ulysses S. Grant

“No matter how many books I write, I will eventually get to fiction. That is where I'm going.”

— Neil Young

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

— Jeanette Winterson

Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a…

— Guy Davenport

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is…

— Roald Dahl

Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism.…

— Anonymous

I like dramas because there's a big overlap between film and fiction, so I feel relatively qualified to talk about plot and…

— Sarah Waters

The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish,…

— Robert Anton Wilson

Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the…

— Grace Paley

“Heralds don't sing about men who lived in orthodoxy or played it safe, they sing about men who lived an uncertain future…

— Evan Meekins

In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you…

— Cynthia Ozick

“He(Prophet Muhammad) was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without…

— Anonymous

To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have…

— Muhammad Yunus

Jon Land writes great fiction, and Betrayal reads like the best of it. The fact that it's true makes the story all…

— Robert Leuci

The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need…

— Al Gore

In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western…

— Cynthia Breazeal

In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology,…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal…

— Tom Robbins

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

— Nadine Gordimer

The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.

— William March

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in…

— Alice Hoffman

I used to read a lot of science fiction when I was younger.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

“My thoughts are free to go anywhere,but its suprising how often they head in your direction”

— Anonymous

The great thing about fiction is that everything you care about ends up going into the book.

— Peter Heller

When I was younger, I was drawn to Ayn Rand books and other works of fiction celebrating individualism.

— David Harsanyi

That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.

— Patrick Modiano

“My own blood always tasted disappointing. I wondered if it tasted that way to God too.”

— Eli Wilde

A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.

— Cinda Williams Chima

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.

— Isaac Asimov

“Writing historical fiction is a legitimate use of Multiple Personality disorder.”

— Peggy Ullman Bell

“She stabbed the earth with her big fork as if she could make Cookie Mac’s blood sprout from it.”

— Susan Rowland

Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.

— Charlaine Harris

Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.

— Suzanne Curchod

“Friendship is just love that has yet to sprout wings and take flight.”

— Kristen Reed