Fiction Quotes · Page 85

For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.

— Norman Lock

I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different.

— Kameron Hurley

[The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence.

— Mary Lee Settle

“Pastor McFucking Bride this . . . Pastor McFucking Bride that. Fuck him!”

— S.B. Redd

“If he's like any other man I've ever met, it's not my smile he's going to be looking at.”

— Brad Thor

“Fiction merely allows us a glimpse of the alternative.”

— Anthony Horowitz

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

— Mike Mills

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

— Anthony Burgess

Labels like 'Chinese Science Fiction' or 'Western Science Fiction' summarize a vast field of work, all of which are diverse and driven…

— Ken Liu

Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question…

— Jeaniene Frost

When I set out to write crime fiction, I didn't think to myself, 'I'm going to model myself on Agatha Christie' or…

— Sophie Hannah

“All fiction is based on some form of reality—otherwise we would never have the inspiration or knowledge to dream up the realistic…

— Rene Folsom

Sometimes journalists ask me, "What's the message?" There is no message. I think that fiction should not be trying to give messages.…

— Isabel Allende

“Vane’s lips tightened to suppress a smile. “Why so hostile, love?” “You whacked me on the head with a ball!” “You deserved…

— Priya Ardis

One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different…

— Gillian Cross

“I really don't know how he does it. How he can take any situation and seduce its pants off. It's a talent…

— Kathey Gray

“If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance…

— Virginia Woolf

“Fiction offers the best means of understanding people different from oneself, short of experience. Actually, fiction can be lots better than experience,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see…

— Henry David Thoreau

I didn't study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction…

— Barbara Kingsolver

We have a lot of suspicion of robots in the West. But if you look cross-culturally, that isn't true. In Japan, in…

— Cynthia Breazeal

While novels are fiction, mine are usually very close to my heart. Like my other books, 'The Lemon Orchard' is inspired by…

— Luanne Rice

People had their image of what a cowboy was, ... A lot of it was perpetuated by the media presentations of the…

— Philip Roberts

Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and…

— Harlan Ellison

Science fiction is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching.

— Zoe Saldana

“I knew that it was impossible for us to be kept apart for too long.”

— Erica Sehyun Song

“The beer gave Penn a headache immediately; she blinked like a mermaid struck by sunshine.”

— Genie Frisbee

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

— Christopher Fry

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

— Roddy Doyle

Cultural concepts are one of the most fascinating things about historical fiction.

— Diana Gabaldon

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

— John Cheever

“A novel, though fiction, often speaks to the largest truths.”

— Mark Rubinstein

Geoff Nelder inhabits Science Fiction the way other people inhabit their clothes.

— Jon Courtenay Grimwood

So often in English fiction, people are either upper-class twits, or else they're knockabouts, less than human.

— Justin Cartwright

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

— Harry Crews

Critical design aims to really push the boundaries of design and to reconsider the element of fiction.

— Nelly Ben Hayoun

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

— Mark Twain

Science fiction is not necessarily either fiction or anything to do with science.

— Judith Merril

Science fiction tends to be philosophy for stupid people.

— Chuck Klosterman

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

— Elizabeth Bowen