Fiction Quotes · Page 32

It's hard to get justice in the real world. It's possible in fiction.

— Lauren Beukes

“He was goin' on four and he used to eat fireflies. I don't know. I think he thought they'd make him glow.”

— Danielle Bennett

“The great thing about growing up with science fiction is that you have an interest in everything.”

— Ray Bradbury

I was very clear that when I do a fiction show the content has to be very unique.

— Amrita Rao

I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the world.

— Kirby Bliss Blanton

The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.

— Todd Strasser

When you're writing fiction, you're in every character 'cause you can't help it.

— Marcia Clark

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“For me, stories are like WD-40 for the brain: they keep all the wheels and gears and clicky-things running smoothly. Without them,…

— The Inkslinger

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to…

— George Murray

Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to…

— N. K. Jemisin

“Everyone had a story he believed was worthy of a best-seller; for me, reality was rarely interesting enough to take the place…

— Ben Mezrich

However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think,…

— Wally Lamb

“I found myself intent on keeping the memories of the year to myself. [...] I didn't want to share them. Because I…

— Amor Towles

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their…

— Raymond Carver

I love magic and playing with magic systems. But to me, good fantasy like all fiction comes down to good character and…

— David B. Coe

“Sometimes I still feel that there are two of me: one clean, flawless picture, the other imperfect and cracked; one boy, one…

— Abigail Tarttelin

“I didn’t want to write SF about people who Sold The Moon or were the big Earth-shattering Newtons-Pasteurs-Einsteins-Hawkings of the future. I…

— Joe Clifford Faust

“I feel like these characters, these places, these beings and plots, and even these inanimate objects are counting on me for survival.…

— Nicholas Trandahl

We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to…

— Neil Gaiman

A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonists taste in music, or…

— Peter Temple

I never really wanted to be a writer. I know it sounds strange, but I honestly believe that I didn't pick the…

— Amish Tripathi

The condition of visibility as it relates to black people was crucial. Connected to that, I've always been interested in science fiction…

— Kerry James Marshall

A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That…

— William Gibson

I think what a lot of fiction is, is the imagining of the worst so as to prepare ourselves.

— Paul Bloom

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

— Charles Dudley Warner

“I thought I was in love, but it was only a head cold." (Humans)”

— Robert Emmett

I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds.

— S. J. Perelman

Science fiction's been good to me. The fans are the most loyal fans in the world.

— Robert Picardo

I think people are always saying things are 'over.' Fiction has been regularly 'over' since the 19th century.

— Claire Tomalin

“Creativity is a commodity and derives its value only in how energy is spent.”

— Mary Deal

The shape I'm in, I could donate my body to science fiction.

— Rodney Dangerfield

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

— Peter Ackroyd

Science fiction writers, when I was a kid, were a big deal.

— Andrew Sean Greer

You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.

— Philip Roth

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

— Jeanette Winterson

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.

— Susan Sontag

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.

— John Grisham

“Dreams only come true if you point yourself in their direction”

— Tina Reber

“The line between fiction and fact is at times factual and at times fictional”

— Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya