Fiction Quotes · Page 111

Tor.com has been a venue for original SF and fantasy since 2008, but we've never formalized our process for submissions. Indeed, for…

— Patrick Nielsen Hayden

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

— Donna Leon

For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors - which is the logic of narratives in general - over…

— Ken Liu

Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction.

— Ian Hickson

I was thinking about the legacy of ghosts in fiction, and specifically the moral power of those Dickensian ghosts. Because a ghost…

— George Saunders

“Miz Ellen, what do you carry in that handbag of yours that has enough wallop to knock down a full-grown man? -…

— Barbara Falkenrath

I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a…

— Richard Hell

One of the many falsities of fiction that we accept quite happily is the non-ageing of characters as they appear across series…

— Michael Rosen

“Grandpa Sereno: "There is nothing as dangerous as fear, fear of people who are different than you. Fear is the REAL danger…

— Rabbi Sipporah Joseph

“The farmhouse sat on a rise at the end of a long dirt road, in a clearing surrounded by fruit trees and…

— Marjorie Hudson

“Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what others tell us to see, instead of really…

— Suzy Kassem

We're growing up with a very illiterate bunch of children who have somehow been taught that film is fact when, in fact,…

— Cate Blanchett

“Solitude of this kind makes me unaware. The roots that bind my person, makes me yearn for freedom and more. I wish…

— Pooja Subramanian

The Israel stories were really hard for me to write, because I think that my book is very much about politics, but…

— Molly Antopol

I'm repledging myself to human-scale values. As a fiction writer, the best data comes through the senses and is then processed through…

— George Saunders

There are vast differences between scripts and stories, of course. Few fiction writers would want to give up the opportunity to explore…

— Les Standiford

I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in…

— Umberto Eco

Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you…

— Julia Quinn

I always say writing fiction isn't something you teach. It's something you do, and only experimentation - i.e. doing it, either badly…

— Peter Orner

I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same…

— Stanley Schmidt

“You live on love crumbs. A nibble drops, you gobble up the morsel. The crumb sustains you until he gives you another.…

— Jennifer Irwin

“Few humans see fairies or hear their music, but many find fairy rings of dark grass, scattered with toadstools, left by their…

— Judy Allen

Anyone who says, 'Books don't change anything,' or - more commonly - that crime fiction is the wrong genre for promoting social…

— Andrew Vachss

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries,…

— Randy Alcorn

Science fiction is the WikiLeaks of science, getting word to the public about what cutting-edge research really means.

— Robert J. Sawyer

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

— Anonymous

I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.

— Lois Lowry

Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane Smiley by a dear professor who…

— Emma McLaughlin

The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things…

— Jim Woodring

If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had…

— Anonymous

“A writer must empathize with all of their characters because he is the one that bestowed upon them both joy and misery.”

— Terry A O'Neal

“I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the…

— Shannon Celebi

There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.

— Arundhati Roy

I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with…

— Sebastian Thrun

I would love to take another stab at really smart, speculative sci-fi - my first was a bit of a stumble. I…

— Karyn Kusama

Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction…

— Dani Shapiro

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a…

— John Cheever

I think it's what fiction is for: to illuminate that gap between our secret selves and our more visible and apparent ones.

— Matthew Specktor

There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.

— Hari Kunzru