Fiction Quotes · Page 79

“It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You…

— Max Barry

I'm not a fan of fiction that's totally hopeless.

— Jeff Vandermeer

“I never take out clients. It’s bad policy.” He looked me straight in the eyes as he said it. Reaching across for…

— Gabrielle Black

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the…

— Tom Wolfe

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But…

— Gloria Vanderbilt

“She had been in one of those sleeps so heavy they leave you feeling sad, disorientated, your stomach full of tears. A…

— Leïla Slimani

Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Truths are dangerous," he said. "Then why are you writing them in a book?" "To catch them between the pages," said Teddy,…

— Kristin Cashore

“Respect the dead, learn from them, do not follow or avenge them.”

— Evan Meekins

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

— Romola Garai

“I am glad you are happy--but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

— Walker Percy

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

— Ulysses S. Grant

I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The…

— Chris Carter

Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.

— Susan Sontag

When I think about what fiction does morally, I'm happier thinking of a person full of multiplicities - sort of fragmented.

— George Saunders

There have already been published by the bucketsful such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have…

— Albert Einstein

Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed,…

— Francis William Aston

I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as…

— John Updike

“We built that Wendy House our own selves, for Wendy! And you can't keep a Wendy out of her own Wendy House!”

— Geraldine McCaughrean

I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.

— Eleanor Antin

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

— Stanley Kubrick

I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just…

— Sarah Dessen

The average ground temperature of the Earth is impossible to measure since most of the Earth is ocean...So this average ground temperature…

— Freeman Dyson

A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“..home INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.”

— Christina Westover

Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Comics also led a lot of young people to science fiction.

— Kerry James Marshall

I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.

— Ryan Gosling

“Funny what one's willing to do for family, isn't it?' Fan said, pulse pounding like a jackrabbit's. 'I take no pleasure in…

— Danielle Bennett

I never wanted my books to be mistaken for poetry or fiction books; I wanted to write reference books. But instead of…

— Kenneth Goldsmith

“Truth in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease.”

— Anonymous

Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.

— Julian Barnes

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

— Aleksandar Hemon

“The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction.”

— Ahmed Mostafa

“Find your self love. Find that precious thing inside you that makes you want to live. And when you’ve found it, hold…

— Valjeanne Jeffers

The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the…

— Gary Shteyngart

Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing.

— Isabel Allende

I had artists that refused to work on Chappie if they were working on a design that actually said Denel on the…

— Neill Blomkamp

We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in…

— Jeanette Winterson