Fiction Quotes · Page 45

I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.

— George R. R. Martin

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

— Walker Percy

“Am Anfang war Gott? It may have been true, but it was not germane.”

— Stephen Craig

I read a lot of sci-fi when I was younger. Loved it from the literary point of view.

— Bonnie Hammer

Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination

— Jeanette Winterson

“Harry Marsham, who was known as Marsh to his friends, should have died that night.”

— Michael Parker

I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff.

— Terry Pratchett

“For the first six months, all whe wanted was honest labor, finely crafted novels, and surf.”

— Eve Babitz

But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You…

— Michael Gruber

“You know there’s this gaping space between us, and if I leaned forward I’d grab Dex’s shirt without ever touching him. You…

— Rebecca Berto

“I took the pistol off the man and shot him with it in both of his eyes. Somewhere in the back of…

— Eli Wilde

I do my business in the morning, and then at 2 P.M., I write fiction for the rest of the day. I…

— Amy Bloom

I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction.

— Heidi Julavits

“Find your self love. Find that precious thing inside you that makes you want to live. And when you’ve found it, hold…

— Valjeanne Jeffers

With non-fiction, there is the struggle to be accurate. With fiction, it is a bit different: the desire to let imagination take…

— Amitava Kumar

“I'd always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an…

— Robin McKinley

Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary…

— Rosemary Clement-Moore

And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction. Flaky American futurologists…

— Martin Rees

There were a couple times when we started working out the stories - and I was doing this with Jim Vallely and…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised…

— David Hewson

Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's…

— Diane Setterfield

Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the…

— William T. Vollmann

“I would read accounts of so-called battles I had been in, and they had no relation whatever to what had happened. So…

— Paul Fussell

Quite often, intent on conveying how things can go wrong for a culture (science fiction) or an individual (horror) or all of…

— Paul Di Filippo

I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.

— Frederick Busch

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

— Ray Bradbury

I believe the word "perfection" should be changed to "pure fiction" - it's just not possible!

— Arielle Ford

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

— Dean Koontz

I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.

— Ranbir Kapoor

“Do what you will, this life's a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.”

— William Blake

I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.

— Matthew Specktor

The Bible, I've said it before, is a beautifully written work of fiction.

— Janeane Garofalo

“… a stunning finale … Fans of smart, philosophical science fiction will want to check this out.”

— Anonymous

“Just because I wasn’t human, didn’t mean I could discount human life. (Eric)”

— Shannon A. Thompson

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

— Mary Augusta Ward

I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.

— David Grann

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

— Peter Matthiessen

I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa.

— Kevin Macdonald

Good fiction challenges us as much as it entertains and these days, we could do with both of these things.

— Roxane Gay

The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.

— Tom Clancy