Fiction Quotes · Page 66

I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not…

— Rita Rudner

It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries,…

— Randy Alcorn

...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go.

— Anonymous

A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it was fiction.”

— Pushpa Rana

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action…

— Amelia Barr

“the bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we…

— Evan Meekins

Charlie Huston, who showran the first season [of Powers], is a novelist, and likes to internalize fiction as a novelist does.

— Brian Michael Bendis

Lester del Rey told me repeatedly that the first and most important part of writing fiction is just to think about the…

— Terry Brooks

However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think,…

— Wally Lamb

A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the…

— Flannery O'Connor

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

— Aneurin Bevan

When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish…

— Douglas Preston

I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the…

— Chester Brown

Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.

— David Foster Wallace

As a writer, I was deliberately creating an alternate world, and then populating it with experiences and people that I knew in…

— Kevin Keck

“Mary’s hands clenched. She’d been through fire, what with a murder, and white supremacists. And what about Caroline, who had gone undercover…

— Susan Rowland

Ribofunk indicates a focus on biology as the upcoming big science in the way that physics was for the last 50 or…

— Paul Di Filippo

“I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica.”

— Jane Austen

“Jules lips quivered, and I feared she was about to cry. Then she asked, “He bit off more than he could chew,…

— Laura Kreitzer

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

— Robert Staughton Lynd

“Finishing my thoughts aloud meant saying how my dad had passed, and I had failed. How I had smoked joints and lay…

— Rebecca Berto

“I opened my eyes and watched the water stream past me. I let out some of my air and gazed at the…

— Erica Sehyun Song

“When I think about science fiction turning into reality, the development of Space has been the most profound transition.”

— Steven Magee

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

— G.K. Chesterton

The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that…

— Geraldine Brooks

“Strength and victory... What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear.”

— Simona Panova

I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble.…

— Erica Jong

I think a lot of people who read fiction are interested in subtlety. But they wouldn't like my stuff. It's a bit…

— Martin Amis

“Creative thinking is the spice of great innovations.”

— Roni Rosenthal

No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably…

— Cynthia Ozick

I must say that, on the whole, I prefer fiction to poetry.

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good…

— Diane Ackerman

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“Keeping up the fiction. You have to keep it up, sometimes, no matter how you feel.”

— Stephen King

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.

— Scott Turow

“Where’s everybody? I thought you had started production.”
“They’ve got a day off, but don’t worry you’ll see the machinery is here.”
But Brown…

— Max Nowaz

The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

— Agatha Christie

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

— Hilary Mantel