For me, choosing between fiction and nonfiction is really only about picking the right tool for the job. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“It had the austere simplicity of fiction rather than the tangled woof of fact.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin. — Tim Roth Copy Share Image
I love the idea of real-life experiences finding their way into fiction. I think that's really cool. — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“I am also an author. Please check out my novel, A Life Worth Dreaming About.” — Nicholas Dettmann Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t sure what was worse: being oblivious or living within reality. (Eric)” — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around. — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
...Don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than 'The Metamorphosis'. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Everything about him screamed in warning, “Caution: dangerous terrain ahead.” A warning that both intrigued and provoked her proceed-at-your-own-risk nature.” — Lotchie Burton Copy Share Image
What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
Dave Eggers is a prince among men when it comes to writing deeply felt, socially conscious books that meld reportage with fiction.… — Elissa Schappell Copy Share Image
“Those of us who believe in princesses are often laughed at. But I believe the world needs princesses and dukes and queens… — Beverly Bartlett Copy Share Image
One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
The great thing I like about the sci-fi genre is there's a lot of different latitude for a lot of different kinds… — Mark Pellegrino Copy Share Image
In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“No, not really. But …” Okay, I couldn’t help but gloat a little. “She likes me.” Samedi didn’t even look at me.… — Lia Habel Copy Share Image
“Much later that night, I thought the door opened and a man came into the bedroom. He was leaning on a stick.… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them. — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll write something that's purely autobiographical, and sometimes pure fiction, and sometimes a mix. — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
I think if I did do something in another genre, it would be science fiction; I'm a big sci fi nerd. — Allen Covert Copy Share Image
“Too many words for one book--truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.” — David Benioff Copy Share Image
“Sci-Fi, Space-Travel, Space-Opera, Chance-Encounters, Adventure-Reads, Speculative-Fiction, Book-Quotes” — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction. — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“Truth in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a big, big love of mine. I would love to get into that at some point. — James Wan Copy Share Image
Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life. — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
“The best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism.” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction? — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
