Fiction Quotes · Page 37

I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic.

— Michael Jackson

Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.

— Siri Hustvedt

Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.

— Matthew Specktor

“Why did you leave? Am I not good enough? Where did you go? When did it happen? ..Who are you?”

— Ade Santi

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

— Jonathan Lethem

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

— Arthur C. Clarke

A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction

— Virginia Woolf

That Hugh Laurie show is nothing but Scrubs fan fiction.

— Zach Braff

“If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don’t have to…

— Jeff Hutchins

In fiction, the reader will make jumps with you. If you can make the reader make that leap with you, it's a…

— William Lashner

“Jane woke, stretched, and decided to kill herself. If she hadn’t found a reason to live by the end of the day…

— Adam Baker

For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I've always been a fan of books that create an interesting blend of fact and fiction - whether it's Norman Mailer, or…

— Mark Boal

Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go.

— Robert J. Sawyer

“I decided to coin the term 'cosy crime noir' for Brighton Belle. That is 'cosy crime' for today's sensibilities because there is…

— Sara Sheridan

“Truths are dangerous," he said. "Then why are you writing them in a book?" "To catch them between the pages," said Teddy,…

— Kristin Cashore

“A powerfully imagined event can evoke the same emotions as a real event. Few artists would contradict this, and yet there no…

— Siri Hustvedt

Writing fiction is the 'job' I try to keep at the center of things. The movie stuff has been a wonderful accident,…

— Jonathan Raymond

Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means…

— Frederick Buechner

“Gina was beautiful like a sunset. You see it and you think of how beautiful it is, and then it’s over and…

— Christopher Stocking

The nice thing about 'Futurama' for me personally was that it was a way to honor some of the traditional ideas in…

— Matt Groening

My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including…

— Jean M. Auel

In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right…

— Charles Palliser

You're already using your imagination because you're watching fiction and then you're trying to believe that this girl who weighs 100 lbs,…

— Katee Sackhoff

I've lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once 'created,' or produced, the art of fiction.

— Rick Bass

Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

— Orson Scott Card

All the things we value in society don't mean much in fiction.

— Martin Amis

“Or you just might say that destiny finally caught up with me.”

— Michael Walsh

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it.

— China Mieville

I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.

— Anson Mount

While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

— Aristotle

“The sun is the biggest metaphor. The sun is the first candle. She can get there by its light.”

— Gregory Maguire

I'm not a very big fan of science fiction. I think that I'm a very big fan of living in the physical…

— Pranav Mistry

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

— Virginia Woolf

“Six nervous wives at the sink, each quiet as a queen on a chessboard.”

— Genie Frisbee

The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?

— Graham Greene

I think fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition.

— Ethan Canin

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

— Jules de Goncourt

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

— Danielle Trussoni