Fiction Quotes · Page 47

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

— Vladimir Nabokov

The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.

— Jess Walter

My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.

— Erica Jong

Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.

— Chelsea Cain

I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

— Candace Camp

fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.

— Gertrude Atherton

Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.

— E. L. Doctorow

I love the opportunity to just let my imagination run riot! Non-fiction can be very restrictive.

— Raymond Buckland

All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.

— Barry Unsworth

“the illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.”

— Evan Meekins

I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else.

— Elizabeth Berg

If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room,…

— Lawrence Block

“While parchment may burn and gold may be stained or melted down, the things that are truly important to us will never…

— Evan Meekins

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order…

— Sydney J. Harris

I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all…

— Regina Spektor

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and…

— Abbas Kiarostami

“As a historian, I found myself all too often treating my historical subjects like fictional characters, malleable entities that could be made…

— Lauren Willig

“A long time ago, there was a little girl called Mary. Now Mary, she was warned several times not to go to…

— Erica Sehyun Song

“In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for…

— Amor Towles

There's a horrible fallacy that exists in the popular discussion of fiction these days: the idea that a successful central character need…

— Andrew O'Hagan

Science fiction went through a period that was mostly object-oriented or inventions for distant galaxies.But when we cracked the genetic DNA code,…

— Margaret Atwood

Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an…

— Richard Ford

I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for…

— Matt Groening

Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with…

— Stephen King

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

— Terry Pratchett

Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

— Mark Twain

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

— Ray Bradbury

Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas.

— Carl Sagan

“I am strong and skilled in battle, and I know how to defend what’s mine.” - Koll in Mating Season”

— Allie Ritch

“This is love not business or politics. I love someone. How can I replace her with someone else?”

— Pramod Verma

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

— Katharine Kerr

“Life is just as deadly as it looks, but fiction is more forgiving.”

— Richard Thompson

Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood,don't write fiction.

— Mary Gaitskill

“Writing to me is like being addicted to heroin… it’s hard and its mean, but you just can’t stop.”

— F.D. Crandall

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

— John Hersey

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

— Dennis Lehane

“woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and”

— Virginia Woolf

I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.

— Mark Haddon

It seems like there's a real appetite for science fiction in the States.

— Matt Smith

“Fiction is a mix of reality, the interpretation of that reality and a lot of "what if".”

— Jim Sellers