Fiction Quotes · Page 33

Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.

— Jen Lancaster

You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children.

— William Poundstone

“I wish life were a fiction novel. Then everyone would have to do what I say.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

“Love at first sight might be fiction, but most fiction has a grain of truth in it, right?”

— Pauline Creeden

“We both must burn this midnight oil together. You’re just as new to me as I am you.” --Andrew”

— Laura Kreitzer

“Fiction is what happens inside a writer's head. Reality takes place outside it”

— Barry A. Whittingham

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

— Neil Gaiman

“Tragedy often gives birth to courage, it offers man a platform to change what will be." Eli Storm, Emanuel Stone And The…

— Isaac Solomon

“If you want the extra-ordinary, you've got to be willing to forsake the ordinary' - Annie Grimes in Mr Alhourani's Dead Man's…

— D.M. Lee

I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore…

— Stephen King

“A small white rabbit with floppy ears and a twitching pink nose bounded out from the thick forest brush. Fingers twitching at…

— Brandi Salazar

SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions. The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in…

— John Sladek

The joy of great fiction is that it transports the reader to another world, where new characters live in otherwise unimaginable ways.…

— Neal Katyal

“No matter how many romantic poems you recite, no matter how many glorious tales of love you read, how can you really…

— Sherry D. Ficklin

The funny thing is that in Bosnia there are no words that are equivalent to fiction and nonfiction. From the storytelling point…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was…

— Arthur Golden

The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself…

— Stephen Batchelor

But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a…

— Neill Blomkamp

“I know what you’re doing,” he whispered to Raphael, whose movements only became more fervent, and the thought slipped from the boy’s…

— Carmen Dominique Taxer

I love fiction, you know? I find it fascinating. So when film really does go into fictional places, that's the most exciting…

— Holly Hunter

“They say that right before you die your whole life flashes before you – a medley of your own personal greatest hits.…

— Emlyn Chand

Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced…

— Brian Aldiss

At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.

— Charles Baxter

There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979

— Kinky Friedman

There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.

— Eudora Welty

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Fiction is as easy as telling a convincing lie. The more believable the better the story.”

— T.R. Wallace

Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.

— George Murray

“To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

— Brian Aldiss

When viewers watch shows, they should relate to the story. There has to be a blend between reality and fiction.

— Vatsal Sheth

“Even in the most uneventful of our lives, we are called upon to choose our battles...”

— Arundhati Roy

Most fiction writers are driven to find their own 'voice,' but I am more interested in the voices of others.

— Sheila Heti

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

— Edward Hirsch

“People have incredible nerve to do terrible things, but never actually admit to them.”

— Henry Mosquera

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.

— Jack McDevitt

I would never never read a work of fiction and want to know about the person's life.

— Jamaica Kincaid