Fiction Quotes · Page 84

“life is not about being fearless its about controlling your fears”

— Anonymous

It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention.

— Frederick Busch

Science fiction to me is the ultimate art form, because it speculates on bodies and worlds that don't exist.

— Oneohtrix Point Never

Many fiction writers who put the science in dont get it right.

— Kathy Reichs

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

— Taiye Selasi

“I'm not the same person I was before, and I am deathly afraid I will never be her again...”

— Jodi LaPalm

“Is there a character in all of fiction more isolated than the little red hen?”

— Karen Joy Fowler

“Nothing makes you think you might need years of therapy like saying the word breasts in front of your mother.”

— Katie McGarry

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it.…

— Octavia Butler

“Look, I went to a lot of trouble to come here and try to help you. I’m in more trouble than I…

— D.L. Given

It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies.

— Natalie Portman

Whatever science fiction movies we watch now, we can make the technology real in two days. What we can do is not…

— Pranav Mistry

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.

— Karin Slaughter

I would say I'm an ironist not a satirist. All you do is you take existing tendencies and crank them up, just…

— Martin Amis

“You can't kill an American Citizen without benefit of a trial." "I can if you're on the list, traitor." "LIST? What list?…

— Brad Thor

“The very idea of a library for me is bound to my mother and father and includes the history of my own…

— Siri Hustvedt

“The city was a machine of its own, continuously producing. We were constantly pumped out through its assembly line, in different forms…

— Cristina Martin

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our…

— Jean Baudrillard

I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a…

— Bertrand Russell

The thing about science-fiction fans and "Star Wars" fans is they're very independent-thinking people. They all think outside the box, but they…

— George Lucas

“She’d always loved the mountains, but as she turned back to face the spectacular seascape in the distance, she nearly lost her…

— Steven Decker

“Snake Street is an area I should avoid. Yet that night I was drawn there as surely as if I had an…

— K. Ritz

Reading it now for the seventh or eighth time, I am more convinced than ever not merely that The Great Gatsby is…

— Jonathan Yardley

“Good fiction doesn’t claim to mirror reality at all. It indicts reality by providing a paradigm of shape and order and justice—the…

— P.S. Baber

Every fiction writer writes around the thing they will never say. Thats what fiction writers do

— Anonymous

The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people.

— John Grisham

When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world

— Julian Barnes

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

— Mark Twain

There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.

— Steven Spielberg

“Love, doesn't need any stamp of society to prove itself, it just happens”

— shilpi

“If a wizard should take up residence in your garden, and requests food, you are obliged to feed him.”

— Mark Jackman

Murderer who lives in my building. His name is Dan Bevacqua. Hes a fiction writer.

— Arda Collins

Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

— Nadine Gordimer

“Perhaps we are all fictions, father, in the mind of God.”

— Graham Greene

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

— Elizabeth Moon

A lot of fiction doesn't answer a question that any reasonable person would ever ask.

— Elif Batuman

I want to be Jackie Onassis and have a second act as a fiction editor. I don't think I wanna write.

— Gillian Jacobs

“Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.”

— Miriam Allen de Ford

Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.

— Paul Bowles

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

— Frederik Pohl