Fiction Quotes · Page 68

You may not be a fan of Twitter-fiction. That's okay. There are novels out there for you - big ones.

— Celeste Ng

“As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began.”

— Richard Peck

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

— William Mapother

I'm not a great 'Star Trek' fan, but I love science fiction.

— John de Lancie

[I like to read] spiritual books, non-fiction, fiction, I have my moods.

— MC Lyte

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. ”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.

— Clive James

“The arrow's away and you're pulling the second before the first hits its mark”

— Jennifer M Zeiger

Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they…

— C. S. Lewis

Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth…

— Joyce Carol Oates

There's an awful lot of hanging around when you're doing science fiction. Going down and waiting for them to set up, being…

— John Hurt

“She actually isn't so bad, now that I'm getting to know her. She's just a little messy on the outside. But aren't…

— S. Elle Cameron

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe…

— Rachel Kushner

I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the…

— Dan Brown

I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only…

— E. L. Doctorow

Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are…

— Thomas Hood

It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has…

— Martin Amis

The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always…

— Alfred Adler

Okay, this is Fran Lebowitz. She gave an interview once for the Paris Review about trying to write fiction and saying that…

— Sloane Crosley

“She stood panting as adrenalin fired up her muscles. Flipping open the safety catches on both of her laser pistols, she set…

— A.R. Merrydew

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology,…

— James Gunn

Because, as we know, almost anything can be read into any book if you are determined enough. This will be especially impressed…

— Anonymous

To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake, and if anything…

— Steve Erickson

“Lucinda might sneak from her own house at midnight to place a wager somewhere else, but she dared not touch the pack…

— Peter Carey

I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

— Paul Auster

A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.

— Robert J. Sawyer

“If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee?”

— Ryan Goodrich

The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

— Peter Mullan

“Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.”

— Frederic Raphael

without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold.

— Elizabeth Bowen

you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction

— Isabel Allende

“Fiction can be more real to the reader than reality itself because fiction is the essence of life”

— James N. Frey

“Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.”

— Vernor Vinge

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

— Edmund Burke

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like…

— Joy Kogawa

“In my life I haven’t done anything worth writing about, but that’s OK. That’s why I write fiction.”

— Jarod Kintz

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

— Jonathan Franzen

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

— Peter Straub

Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.

— Barbara Kingsolver