Fiction Quotes · Page 81

“Fiction is the great liar that tells the truth about how the world really lives.”

— Dorothy Allison

“There is no right or wrong, only what we believe is more right or more wrong”

— Evan Meekins

I feel a terrible loss when I (eventually must) complete a work of fiction.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“(there is no pepper on the table; evidently pepper perks the libido),”

— Tom Hillman

In fiction, if people like one of your books, they tend to pick up your other books as well.

— Ravi Subramanian

A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them.

— Randall Munroe

Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.

— Diana Gabaldon

“We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity--governing…

— Miguel Syjuco

The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.

— Orson Scott Card

I make non-fiction partly because I'm not that good of a writer. My talent, if I have any, is in balancing, capturing…

— Robert Greene

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at…

— Carter Burwell

I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

— Lucy Walker

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

— John Hodgman

A lot of people forget that the origin of science fiction in the U.S. was in the post-First World War period when…

— Robert J. Sawyer

“She died without us by her side, and now, we are left with the scars. In time, perhaps they will fade, but…

— Sophie Palmer

The short story that eventually grew into Constellation was the first fiction set in Russia that I'd ever written, and that was…

— Anthony Marra

I suppose most writers are following Twain's advice to tackle what they know, and my own readings habits drew me to writers…

— Kevin Keck

“Above all, readers want useful information, whether from a road sign or an investment guide. This motive is not completely absent even…

— Alice W. Flaherty

The competitions between fiction and nonfiction, short and long, electronic and paper, are not battles in which there can be only one…

— Celeste Ng

The mainstream has lost its way. Crime fiction is an objective, realistic genre because it's about the real world, real bodies really…

— Michael Dibdin

The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I…

— Dinaw Mengestu

I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read…

— Thomas Mallon

“He led her back to the house, the perfume from the acacia clinging to her. The djinn was supposed to live in…

— Nadeem Aslam

Since truth is often stranger than fiction, fiction needs to be pretty weird

— Erik Meyer

“An author of fiction is a god of the world he creates. But it must be a world others want to inhabit.”

— Raul Ramos y Sanchez

I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.

— Kate Grenville

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

— Orson Scott Card

I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life.

— Anthony Doerr

Fiction. . . . It's like goading a mongoose and a cobra into battle and staying with them to see who wins.

— Shauna Singh Baldwin

“Her scream of utter horror and fright was a sound that no one in the chamber would ever forget. ~Crispin.~”

— J.L. Clayton

“Life is the courier of the universal brilliance." Elysse”

— Elysse Poetis

“His kiss was light but lingering, like smoke from shivering lips on a freezing winter morning.”

— Rebecca Berto

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

— Rudy Rucker

I love writing fiction and can do it anywhere - I once even missed a flight because I was so engrossed.

— Prue Leith

I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.

— Brian Aldiss

I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.

— Randy Alcorn

Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies.

— John Twelve Hawks

I don't think you could write fiction or create art unless you are sort of a positive person.

— David Means

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

— Rudy Rucker