Fiction Quotes · Page 71

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

— Walker Percy

I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.

— George R. R. Martin

I read a lot of sci-fi when I was younger. Loved it from the literary point of view.

— Bonnie Hammer

“In life your rewards come from the gifts you give to others.”

— Ken Donaldson

“Jesus honey, your husband ain’t dead, he’s in hiding.” He growled, watching her visibly flinch. - Jase Devlin”

— Nina D'Angelo

“In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I believe the word "perfection" should be changed to "pure fiction" - it's just not possible!

— Arielle Ford

I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.

— Matthew Specktor

The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.

— Flannery O'Connor

With fiction, I felt like I could bring to bear my full imagination, my entire heart, and so you feel very vulnerable.…

— Peter Heller

“Genres are what holds each story together and help it along, but in no way should it ever be treated as a…

— Lauren Lola

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

— Joely Richardson

I've loved sci-fi and speculative fiction since I was a kid. It was inevitable I'd try my hand at it at some…

— Rick Yancey

“Alas, a fiction can fly around the world before the truth has managed to pick the sleep from its eyes in the…

— Adam Rutherford

A postcolonial writer who has often been credited with mixing the mundane with the magical, and history with fiction, is Salman Rushdie.

— Amitava Kumar

As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real.

— Julia Glass

I have a 22-year-old son, and when my son was born I made a decision to raise him. My husband and I…

— Maryse Alberti

“There's an internal compass inside of me that laid still for so long, stuck behind its arc of glass, listless and without…

— Raven Kennedy

In matters of religion a skeptical mind is not a higher manifestation of virtue than is a believing heart, and analytical deconstruction…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go…

— Anonymous

“Farther down the riverbank sat a young man dressed all in white. He was the only person in sight. His hair was…

— Terry Pratchett

“Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in…

— Anonymous

The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that…

— Tony Kushner

“A true leader is not meant to be greeted with unanimous praise by his people. A leader is meant to be questioned,…

— Evan Meekins

The Bible, I've said it before, is a beautifully written work of fiction.

— Janeane Garofalo

“Do what you will, this life's a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.”

— William Blake

I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.

— Ranbir Kapoor

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

— Dean Koontz

I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff.

— Terry Pratchett

Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination

— Jeanette Winterson

“Harry Marsham, who was known as Marsh to his friends, should have died that night.”

— Michael Parker

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

— Ray Bradbury

“For the first six months, all whe wanted was honest labor, finely crafted novels, and surf.”

— Eve Babitz

I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.

— Frederick Busch

I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.

— David Grann

Good fiction challenges us as much as it entertains and these days, we could do with both of these things.

— Roxane Gay

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

— Peter Matthiessen

I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa.

— Kevin Macdonald

“… a stunning finale … Fans of smart, philosophical science fiction will want to check this out.”

— Anonymous

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

— Mary Augusta Ward