Fiction Quotes · Page 58

“If the weight comes from bacon you can so deduct it off the scale total to get your true weight. #science”

— Michelle M. Pillow

“That was a stupid idea I made up while drunk. Why did someone build that?”

— Warren Ellis

“The things that scare us never look as daunting if you change the way you look at them.”

— G.J. Walker-Smith

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

— Frederic Raphael

Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

— Etgar Keret

“Good fiction is not defined by the masses, but by the tentative ear.”

— James D. Maxon

“Never give up! And write for yourself first and foremost.”

— Aminah Iman

“As if the jealousy of a lover could ever compete with the ferocity of a mother.”

— Sarah A. Denzil

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have…

— Robert Morgan

the days of our lives vanish utterly, more insubstantial than if they had been invented. Fiction can seem more enduring than reality.

— Penelope Lively

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the…

— Tom Wolfe

“My mind skidded round a very short track and passed the finish line in a matter of seconds without any sensible conclusion.”

— Petra Kidd

... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to…

— Virginia Woolf

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of…

— Ellen Hopkins

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between…

— Hannah Arendt

The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time.

— Chad Harbach

Narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like…

— George Hickenlooper

Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read…

— Neil Gaiman

It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction…

— Paul Di Filippo

I supposed this was one reason why people got married, to make a fiction that was tellable. It wasn’t just movies that…

— Miranda July

“Picture this broad: 22 going on 18. Half the guys in my class would have given their left testicle to date her.…

— Ted Gargiulo

“We live in a society that doesn’t offer any support or appreciation for ventures that aren’t clearly articulated and aligned for a…

— Ron Carlson

Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don't know what's inside. You hook them…

— Randy Alcorn

When you're writing a script you have the option to embellish on life or switch the order of events or make it…

— Lena Dunham

I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.

— Joan Larkin

Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States.

— Dick Cheney

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

— Tim O'Brien

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

— Malcolm Forbes

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

— Ivana Trump

I'm a big fan of historical fiction stuff. Historical battles - 'Gladiators,' 'The Patriot.'

— Andrew Luck

“The unification of worlds is an author's priority, as one of them surely resides forbidden to the public.”

— Paul Andreas Wunderlich

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.

— LeCrae

I love 19th century fiction and, in particular, fiction written by and about women.

— Gail Honeyman

To be honest, Im not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.

— Chang-Rae Lee

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

— Cory Doctorow

Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.

— Nicholas Sparks

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better.

— Jon Weisman

“the good end happily, the bad end unhappily -- that is what 'fiction' means.”

— Oscar Wilde

“a truth does not take too long to tell, only a fiction requires so much thought”

— Tami Hoag