Fiction Quotes · Page 72

“Just because I wasn’t human, didn’t mean I could discount human life. (Eric)”

— Shannon A. Thompson

“My boy? he is even better than books. -fiction has nothing on you.”

— Amanda Lovelace

In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

— Anonymous

“Philippe to his mother "do stop chasing after a carriage that has a runaway mare.”

— E.L.R. Jones

I think all fiction should be fair game for the Christian market, except porn, of course.

— Anonymous

“This isn't the road home. This is a road littered with questions that will inevitably lead to an answer.”

— Ryan S. Fortney

The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.

— Tom Clancy

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric…

— Dan Chaon

I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.

— Quentin Tarantino

“Losing maturity in one’s fiction for the sake of marvels and monsters can also mean losing propriety, and that’s not always a…

— Hal Duncan

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my…

— Maya Angelou

While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had…

— Joanna Scott

Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define…

— Tom Shippey

I remember when they started publishing Latino fiction years ago. You had to be really good to get published. Now you don't…

— Sandra Cisneros

“Really, Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy... Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience…

— Atul Purohit

Auto da Fay reveals the trickles of a creative sensibility that later became a tide, but essentially, Weldon the writer emerges only…

— Joanna Murray-Smith

“I hope, that in the days, and weeks, and years to come, the question of where the dividing lines between adult and…

— Neil Gaiman

There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein and Ray Bradbury. Of those four,…

— Robert J. Sawyer

If Fobbit leaves a reader feeling stranded in some bland in-between territory, then I haven't done my job. But having said all…

— Dave Abrams

However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is…

— Henry David Thoreau

Ultimately, I want a peak experience in reading, and that is sometimes difficult to find in contemporary fiction. I'm not interested in…

— C.E. Morgan

Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I happen to be one of those rare actors that actually loves very intelligent and well-acted science fiction.

— Richard Hatch

People read fiction... to learn something about how to live their lives.

— Ronald Sukenick

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

— Peter Morgan

When reading fiction, we cannot automatically assume that what we read is fact.

— Celeste Ng

“Being a single parent on a part-time basis is tricky to navigate. That is what a racing widow has to do.”

— Aly Grady

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like,…

— Henry Rollins

“There are two rules for success... 1. Never reveal everything you know.”

— Ylond Miles-Davis

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

— Richard Attenborough

The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.

— Alice Mattison

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

— Brian Aldiss

“Living in that castle was like being condemned to Hell before I’d even had the opportunity to sin.”

— Kristen Reed

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

— Scott Turow

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

— Stanley Kubrick

I think I'm out of crime fiction now, and I think the dividing line is American Tabloid.

— James Ellroy

“The magic of fiction lies in deluding reason that it is fiction.”

— Róbert Gál

“The wind blowing through the cracks in the walls was fitting for this isolated and lonely place.”

— Nancy B. Brewer