Fiction Quotes · Page 46

“This isn't the road home. This is a road littered with questions that will inevitably lead to an answer.”

— Ryan S. Fortney

People read fiction... to learn something about how to live their lives.

— Ronald Sukenick

I happen to be one of those rare actors that actually loves very intelligent and well-acted science fiction.

— Richard Hatch

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

— Anonymous

In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“My boy? he is even better than books. -fiction has nothing on you.”

— Amanda Lovelace

I think all fiction should be fair game for the Christian market, except porn, of course.

— Anonymous

“Philippe to his mother "do stop chasing after a carriage that has a runaway mare.”

— E.L.R. Jones

I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond…

— Kate Forsyth

All the pictures I do are contemporary. I've sort of discovered I haven't really been into science fiction or period pictures. And…

— Michael Douglas

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which…

— Samuel Johnson

I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if…

— Christopher Rice

As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.

— Stewart O'Nan

It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories; anything that…

— Timothy Dalton

“It was dark, so I couldn't make out much of her face, but she had brilliant red hair, like honey and roses…

— Kiera Cass

As writers, our job is to try to create, in a fake space, something that feels true. That's just straight-up fiction: Invent…

— Craig Mazin

“I explained that most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home.…

— Azar Nafisi

“It is noteworthy that few works of fiction make marriage their central concern. As Northrup Frye puts it, with his accustomed clarity:…

— Carolyn G. Heilbrun

Ven you read the speeches in the papers, and see as vun gen'lman says of another, 'the Honourable member, if he vill…

— Charles Dickens

“So now begins the first war with Cordelia' in which I retreat and thereby teach her to be victorious as she pursues…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have…

— William Gibson

“A big part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in…

— David Foster Wallace

When you're not doing fiction, there's a limit to how much illustrating you can do with your work. I mean, you can…

— Miranda July

“Sin’s cold, calculating, and dangerous. She scares the shit outta me. I wouldn’t want to meet her in a dark alley and…

— Michelle O'Leary

It's doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista.

— Lynn Coady

“Fiction is true. It doesn’t have to factual to be true.”

— Ben Monopoli

I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?”

— Nora Roberts

Those who read the fiction assume that, because I'm also a historian, I know what I'm talking about.

— Saul David

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

— Terry Pratchett

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

— Rudy Rucker

“I don’t like anything pointing at me, dollface, that includes an umbrella, a finger, or a gun, got it?”

— A.G. Russo

A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people.

— Greg Egan

Science fiction sometimes is fun because it reaches so far in the future.

— Alan Taylor

I see no difference between scientific exploration and human exploration.

— John M. Grunsfeld

Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

— H. L. Mencken

Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction.

— Kelly Link

“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”

— Frederic Bastiat

I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir.

— Akhil Sharma

There's a huge distance between who I am as a regular person and what takes place in my fiction.

— David Means