Fiction Quotes · Page 67

“There's no such thing as fiction", Annie told him once. "If you can imagine something, then it's happened.”

— Charles de Lint

“Peter loved to hear the story of how his father tried to steal the sun. ”

— Douglas Weissman

The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.

— Henry David Thoreau

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

— Joan D. Vinge

Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.

— Paul Verhoeven

I write fiction, there's no guarantee that what I say is truthful.

— Steve Toltz

It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.

— Karen Thompson Walker

“The writing of fiction is a dance between truth and invention”

— Barbara Kingsolver

I definitely want to act and I want to sing. If those two fall through, I want to become a writer, probably,…

— Cassie Steele

I completely don't enjoy sci-fi. I have to say that's a genre I'm deeply, deeply not into. I can't - I'm so…

— Kelly Reichardt

When you're writing fiction it's a heightened voice. You're trying to cast a spell, which isn't the same thing as trying to…

— Darryl Pinckney

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for…

— A. A. Gill

Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats…

— Ben Lerner

The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.

— Theodore Sturgeon

“I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that…

— Sara Sheridan

“I recalled something I’d read a long time ago about Satan. When he appeared, it wouldn’t be as a demon but as…

— Steven Ramirez

There's an imperative to make sure you distinguish fiction from the fact, because if the fact is doing the work, why did…

— Fred D'Aguiar

“He's probably somewhere right now eating a Big-N-Tasty. The man has a coffee pot, a microwave, AND a mini refrigerator in his…

— Piper Faust

“From Olsen's Nation: "Through the power of our diplomacy, a world that was once divided about how to deal with Iran’s nuclear…

— Randy Quarles

“He wasn't, I realized when I read those scenes concerning Blair and myself, close to any of us-- except of course to…

— Bret Easton Ellis

Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I'm a science fiction author at heart, and what I like about the Cthulhu Mythos setting is that, at its core, it…

— David Conyers

I had a visceral connection to the period [of Korean War]. By visceral I suppose I mean emotional. But every fiction requires…

— Chang-Rae Lee

“The epiphany machine will not discover anything about you that you do not, in some way, already know. But think for a…

— David Burr Gerrard

“When written correctly, science fiction is science prophecy.”

— Shawn Stern

If the world would fall apart in a fiction-worthy wind, I wouldn't change a thing now that you're here.

— Brandon Boyd

In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.

— E. L. Doctorow

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

— Brian Aldiss

Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?

— Amiri Baraka

“The most profound questions are best explored through fiction.”

— Paul Kieniewicz

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

— Martin McDonagh

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

— John Banville

“Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I made up my mind that I will do fiction in films and non-fiction in TV.

— Javed Jaffrey

I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay.

— Susan Sontag

“Truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true; Real becomes not-real where the unreal's real.”

— Cao Xueqin

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

— A. E. van Vogt

“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”

— Sara Pascoe

What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.

— Edward M. Lerner

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

— Sabaa Tahir