Fiction Quotes · Page 70

“Fiction is true. It doesn’t have to factual to be true.”

— Ben Monopoli

It's doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista.

— Lynn Coady

I see no difference between scientific exploration and human exploration.

— John M. Grunsfeld

Science fiction sometimes is fun because it reaches so far in the future.

— Alan Taylor

A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people.

— Greg Egan

Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction.

— Kelly Link

Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

— H. L. Mencken

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

— Terry Pratchett

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“It's best not to get settled on things being a certain way, I realized. Life had a funny way if interrupting your…

— Tracey Porter

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction,…

— Chris Chocola

I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels…

— James Wolcott

“In one universe, the human race disappeared. It wasn’t an event of controversy among felinekind because most agreed, 'Good riddance.”

— Annabelle Nash

Anna: “I thought Indians built fires with fiction.” Charles: “I can do that, but I'd like to eat sometime in the next…

— Patricia Briggs

Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money,…

— Helen Garner

Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a…

— Eckhart Tolle

“The world was ersatz and actual, forged and faked, by ourselves and unseen others. Daring to attempt to absolutely sort fake from…

— Jonathan Lethem

The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before…

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

You will most appreciate 'Freddy and Fredericka' if you are familiar with the story of the Fall, the Good Hermit, 'Tom Jones,'…

— Mark Helprin

“Six month of sitting home, six month of doing absolutely nothing but watching TV, going out, sleeping, getting drunk and sleeping again.…

— Ellie Midwood

“Bergé’s yelling had attracted the attention of everyone in the Kibati hall: champagne flutes stopped halfway to heavily painted lips, eyes widened,…

— Mark Zero

Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling…

— J. G. Ballard

“That resplendent space created by a piece of fiction can really expand the width of time... Clearly there is a spot somewhere…

— Banana Yoshimoto

I think it is our job, as writers, to be epic. Epic and tiny at the same time. If you're going to…

— Colum McCann

Those who read the fiction assume that, because I'm also a historian, I know what I'm talking about.

— Saul David

“I don’t like anything pointing at me, dollface, that includes an umbrella, a finger, or a gun, got it?”

— A.G. Russo

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

— Rudy Rucker

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

— Vladimir Nabokov

My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.

— Erica Jong

The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.

— Jess Walter

There's a huge distance between who I am as a regular person and what takes place in my fiction.

— David Means

I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir.

— Akhil Sharma

“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”

— Frederic Bastiat

Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.

— E. L. Doctorow

fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.

— Gertrude Atherton

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

— Terry Pratchett

I love the opportunity to just let my imagination run riot! Non-fiction can be very restrictive.

— Raymond Buckland

Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.

— Chelsea Cain

I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

— Candace Camp

“Am Anfang war Gott? It may have been true, but it was not germane.”

— Stephen Craig