Fiction Quotes · Page 82

“Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.” Chat. British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.”

— Priya Ardis

“(F)iction is...what ought to have been, not what actually was. At least, not exactly.”

— Charles McCarry

A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.

— Thomas M. Disch

“Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold.”

— George Orwell

Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

— Peter Carey

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

— William H. Gass

I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.

— Virginia Woolf

“Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made by your own hand.”

— Y.K. Raikou

Those are the movies that we [with Evan Goldberg] always wanted to make. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, the kind of movies where…

— Seth Rogen

I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I…

— Lauren F. Winner

“HATE is the shortest of human emotions, it is stronger than love, more compelling than lust. Page 30. THE SCALPEL – GAME BENEATH

— H.S. Rissam

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract.…

— Jodi Picoult

“The more I learn about life and people, the more I realise that everyone has a story and everyone’s story is the…

— Laura Bailey

In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her…

— Brian Boyd

“Never trust a fiction author. They spend countless hours making you believe in a world they created. They are among the best,…

— James Ticknor

Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in…

— John Cheever

I've been enthralled by deep vistas of space and time ever since watching George Pal's film of 'The Time Machine,' while an…

— Alastair Reynolds

Transmedia storytelling represents a process where integral elements of a fiction get dispersed systematically across multiple delivery channels for the purpose of…

— Henry Jenkins

Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol'…

— David Foster Wallace

As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never…

— Ayelet Waldman

“The hamster-powered hat is the same as any other hat. It keeps your head warm and looks smart,” the inventor said. “The…

— Mark Jackman

“...one had to expect very little—almost nothing—from life, Aaron knew, one had to be grateful, not always trying to seize the days…

— Tao Lin

The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are…

— Whitley Strieber

“You look within and upon and around me, savoring every inch. You pull my ear for no reason, and I can tell…

— Virginia Petrucci

I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

— Ira Glass

Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

— Janette Rallison

Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon.

— Ron Carlson

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

— Jean Baudrillard

I was always into science fiction and I always liked sci-fi. Aliens! Spaceships! And all that stuff.

— Marky Ramone

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

— Walter Salles

“We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion.”

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

I have always been a fan of genre stuff and fantasy and sci-fi.

— Travis Beacham

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

— Franklin P. Adams

for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

— Ellen Glasgow

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

— Fay Weldon

People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.

— Cameron Winklevoss

I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.

— Bennett Miller

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“His appetite for the marvelous, and his powers of digesting it, were equally extraordinary”

— Washington Irving

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

— Herman Wouk