Fiction Quotes · Page 74

If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting.

— Ethan Canin

“Good fiction can help us to expand our circle of empathy to include people unlike ourselves.- R' Eitan Levy”

— Eitan Levy

“those who do read fiction are better able to understand the emotions of others.”

— Terry Marselle

“A good friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body.”

— Steven J. Daniels

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

— Alvin Toffler

The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

— Denis Leary

It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.

— Kingsley Amis

Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it's going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just…

— Karen Russell

Serial fiction is a conceit of comic books and soap operas. As one goes, so goes the other in terms of public…

— Mark Waid

But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about…

— Anonymous

I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As…

— Brian Lumley

Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written…

— Charles Stross

Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script…

— Matthew Specktor

Several members of my family have, or have had, one form of dementia or another. I really wanted to explore what it…

— Emma Healey

I have always been intensely uncomfortable with the idea of a science fiction writer as prophet. Not that there haven't been science…

— William Gibson

“But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And…

— T.C. Boyle

Politically I also don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station…

— Michael Ondaatje

...if there is a widely shared concept of intentional action... a philosophical analysis of intentional action that is wholly unconstrained by that…

— Alfred Mele

“My worry is that they will look down on our enemies. They have seen the Arabs in these mud towns and think…

— Nigel Seed

“In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades.…

— Ray Bradbury

Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Grover spit expertly between his teeth. "You know, Nerburn," he said, "you're like those treaty negotiators we used to have to deal…

— Kent Nerburn

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

“Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being.”

— David Foster Wallace

“Fiction means never letting the pure truth get in the way of a good story.”

— Nathaniel Robert Winters

“This ain't beauty,' Rook said, and spat savagely- grossly- downwind. "Just some nasty shadows masquerading.”

— Danielle Bennett

That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?

— Jodi Picoult

I just think the whole disease model of addiction is crap. It's rooted in fiction and junk science.

— Charlie Sheen

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

— William Faulkner

“The human heart Is unknowable. But in my birthplace The flowers still smell The same as always.”

— Rumer Godden

If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

— Yann Martel

Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.

— H. L. Mencken

Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.

— Ray Bradbury

The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.

— James Lasdun

A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section.

— Steve Maraboli

“Nonsense, this is my home and I must defend it. It’s time for Santa to get serious.”

— Michael Diack

“You look like shit.” “Thanks. I look way better than I feel.”

— J.T. Lawrence

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

— Regina Spektor