Fiction Quotes · Page 79

Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.

— Jennifer Haigh

“Or you just might say that destiny finally caught up with me.”

— Michael Walsh

Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

— Orson Scott Card

All the things we value in society don't mean much in fiction.

— Martin Amis

A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction

— Virginia Woolf

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

— Arthur C. Clarke

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

— Jonathan Lethem

I've lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once 'created,' or produced, the art of fiction.

— Rick Bass

Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction.

— Frederic Tuten

I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place…

— James Frey

I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or…

— Charles de Lint

Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow…

— Roger Angell

“And whose rules will choose to you follow? God's? Or man's? You say you want to break the outmoded patterns and crate…

— Kathleen McGowan

“Uh-oh, big boy. Your blood is in the water and the sharks are circling. Must be feeding time."--Mea Brin, The Huntress”

— Michelle O'Leary

If I'm going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most…

— Glen Duncan

It's probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I ... want to open everybody's bureau…

— Margaret Atwood

My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very…

— Samantha Shannon

I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to…

— Ben Lerner

This is one of the ways fiction is more liberating than nonfiction - I don't have to be so concerned with fact.…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

To those who think that all this sounds like science fiction, we point out that yesterday's science fiction is today's fact. The…

— Theodore Kaczynski

“A tightrope walker uncertain if he could make it to the other side probably would not. A race car driver wondering if…

— Roy L. Pickering Jr

George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to…

— Haruki Murakami

One day I decided to move towards documentaries or to move to more directing in documentaries at this point in my career.…

— Dror Moreh

This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that…

— Andrzej Stasiuk

That Hugh Laurie show is nothing but Scrubs fan fiction.

— Zach Braff

Art, you know, art and fiction, especially in big books, you know, it takes a while.

— Charles Bock

I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'

— Michael P. Anderson

“I didn't know then that the mind, like the earth, has several layers: a crust, a mantle, a boiling core.”

— Lauren Slater

You know what the funniest thing about Europe is? It's the little differences.

— Quentin Tarantino

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

— Ivan Reitman

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

— Jill Lepore

“Nonfiction lets us learn more; fiction lets us be more.”

— Kylene Beers

“This isn’t fiction, the man says. This is the Post Office.”

— Ali Smith

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

— Rod Serling

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

— Justin Cronin

“Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.”

— Neil Gaiman

I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

— Beau Willimon

Watch with wisdom the shadow you see is better than the spirit you known!

— D Brown

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

— Sean Durkin

“When dancing with a pit bull, it's always best to let him lead.”

— Michael Barnett