Fiction Quotes · Page 56

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

— Anonymous

I like fiction set in the South, and I'm a fan of literary westerns.

— George Pelecanos

“My thoughts are free to go anywhere,but its suprising how often they head in your direction”

— Anonymous

I used to read a lot of science fiction when I was younger.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.

— William March

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in…

— Alice Hoffman

“My own blood always tasted disappointing. I wondered if it tasted that way to God too.”

— Eli Wilde

That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.

— Patrick Modiano

“  “What’s puzzling is the sender wrote, ‘I hope this is helpful for the Tariq’Allah office in Istanbul. Stay in touch.’ Turkey…

— Karl Braungart

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green…

— Theodore Sturgeon

So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest…

— Octavia Butler

“I’m sorry to tell you that another Dani was found wandering around the time station in our building, confused and disoriented.”

— Steven Decker

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

— Philippa Gregory

I'm probably a lot closer than perhaps the contents of my early fiction suggest to a jaded Denny's waitress with smoker's-lung-black humor…

— Karen Russell

“It was as if - this something I thought of only later, of course - she were gently peeling back one layer…

— Haruki Murakami

I'm not a reader of young adult fiction for the simple reason that these novelists are writing for adolescents, so they are…

— Robert Cormier

While the film [Hide and seek] is a work of fiction, I know many people, not just women, who have felt the…

— Garth Kravits

“Jace’s husky voice almost came out in a purr. He said, “You want to make a bet on that, Charlie.” Oh yeah,…

— J.L. Clayton

I think my first general rule is that most of my experiences are not that interesting. It's usually other people's experiences. It's…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Life scars the writer but he is not without weapons of vengeance. The art of fiction is a prism that he can…

— Kerima Polotan

Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility…

— Eudora Welty

Reading Tomato Red-the first Daniel Woodrell novel I came upon-was a transformative experience. It expanded my sense of the possibilities not only…

— Megan Abbott

How can she explain to him that every tear takes her further and further away from the box of razors that lies…

— Anonymous

The great thing about fiction is that everything you care about ends up going into the book.

— Peter Heller

When I was younger, I was drawn to Ayn Rand books and other works of fiction celebrating individualism.

— David Harsanyi

“She had a face which was not so much freckled as one big freckle with occasional areas of skin.”

— Neil Gaiman

There's a lot of fiction from that period that we're nostalgic for.

— Brian K. Vaughan

Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.

— David Foster Wallace

“Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don’t fall.”

— Henry Mosquera

Science fiction stories reflect major issues that concern humanity.

— Liu Cixin

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it." Goethe”

— Paul Alan Fahey

“Sharon, you have bewitched me, body and soul. I don't wish to be parted from you, from this day forward.”

— Lynda Colucci

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

— Fay Weldon

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.

— Alain de Botton

Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.

— Young-Ha Kim

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

— Robert Morgan

“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to”

— Phil Hogan

There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them.

— David Morrell

“Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.”

— Sara Sheridan