Fiction Quotes · Page 31

Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.

— Patrick Rothfuss

“In writing, there is art. And in art there is craft ...”

— Susi Moore

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

— Sarah Zettel

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

— Lauren Willig

“There are monsters among us. I mean this quite literally.”

— Edison McDaniels

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

— Paul Di Filippo

As I keep saying, fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was.

— Arundhati Roy

Starring in a science fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.

— Harrison Ford

My personal mission statement is to combine the intimately human and the grandly cosmic. I like to think that science fiction works…

— Robert J. Sawyer

I should say, I don't write about myself or my life. So for me, in fiction, it's always been about what I…

— Jennifer Egan

The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of…

— Virginia Woolf

And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers.…

— Quentin Tarantino

Something I found while writing 'Alice & Oliver' - a book that is unquestionably a work of fiction, but which also borrows…

— Charles Bock

There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors…

— Garrison Keillor

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

— Oscar Wilde

“It’d been a long time since they’d been together, but as close as they were physically, they’d never been so far apart…

— Jennifer Faye

here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

“In Woolrich's crime fiction there is a gradual development from pulp to noir. The earlier a story, the more likely it stresses…

— Francis M. Nevins

“Over the green squares of the fields and the low curves of a wood there rose in the distance a grey, melancholy…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I think a more complex idea of fiction - and the human self's relationship with the world - emerges when we abandon…

— Pankaj Mishra

I've played drug dealers, all my life. I've made a career of killing people and playing all kinds of killers. The violence…

— Benicio Del Toro

“Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“I have never battled a gargoyle before.” Zacharel shook his head, a dark lock of hair tumbling into one emerald eye. Damp…

— Gena Showalter

Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks…

— Dan Chaon

In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national .

— Andrew Lam

“Roads do not choose what they carry. Kings Armies Pilgrims Famine Grief All pass beneath the same stone.”

— Harshit Dixit

Horror is a part of science fiction. It belongs in the definition of sci-fi.

— Bonnie Hammer

Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings

— Anonymous

“Sometimes we need enemies more than we need friends. Mandy Walker”

— Laura Wilkinson

Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.

— Arthur Smith

Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.

— Willa Cather

Science always interested me, and science, real science, was more science fiction than science fiction.

— Lynn Hershman Leeson

Dedicated to helping you create strong, vibrant, and beautiful fiction

— David Farland

“The art that speaks [truth] most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.”

— Eudora Welty

“The girl I’d been just an hour ago was gone; she’d been obliterated. I had no idea who I was, now.”

— Amy Hatvany

“That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Fiction gives us the second chance that life denies us.”

— Paul Theroux

“All people must at all times have the complete freedom to decide where and how to live”

— Michael G. Kramer

Sometimes I worry that people who read my fiction think that I am making some kind of thesis statement.

— Jenny Zhang

People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell