Fiction Quotes · Page 59

“Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.”

— Christian Baloga

“No–one believes they’re a hero. But that doesn’t mean they’re not heroic - Captain Spectre.”

— Kevin Outlaw

Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

— Abraham Cowley

“The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.”

— Franklin P. Adams

I've read only fiction, so I don't know anything actual.

— Anna Torv

“Identity was everything, but it seemed I never had one. (Jessica)”

— Shannon A. Thompson

Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction.

— Walter Mosley

Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.

— Don DeLillo

I personally just want to do as many different things as I can do, whether it's comedy, drama, science fiction, horror, narrator...…

— Colin Farrell

In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy's got his…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or…

— Ethan Canin

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage…

— Michael Cunningham

When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more…

— Joan Didion

Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what…

— Linwood Barclay

However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory…

— Samuel R. Delany

For years, we in publishing have been hearing from Catholic readers that they really yearn for Catholic fiction.

— Regina Doman

I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny…

— Jennifer Weiner

“You don’t think he’s our man?” asked Adam. It occurred to him that Ramsbottom was not exactly forthcoming with information. “I didn’t…

— Max Nowaz

Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. If you've never been sailing, or picked…

— Ken Robinson

I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive…

— Cynthia Ozick

...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to…

— Isabel Allende

The brightest minds in our field have been trying to find a definition of science fiction for these past seventy years. The…

— Larry Niven

I'm interested in non-fiction, but a form of it which is very badly behaved, which doesn't define itself as straight-ahead journalism or…

— David Shields

“I tapped around on my new Miracle Phone—a gift from Joseph—as I listened to the discussion about our next move. I wasn’t…

— Laura Kreitzer

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

— Rod Serling

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

— Richard Harris

“What you do today is important . We can never get today back.”

— Christine Handy

People want movies to be one thing or another; they want it be fact or fiction.

— Laurel Nakadate

“It's your destiny to be here, Dana." "Oh really. How nice. Is it Brandon's destiny to be here too?" "Yep.”

— James L. Rubart

I really like stories, so in a way it doesn't matter for me if they are real or fiction.

— Volker Bertelmann

I had been contemplating working on fiction show for some time and 'Humsafars' seemed like the perfect choice.

— Payal Rohatgi

“There is nothing more amazing than being with the one you love.”

— Shilpi

If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.

— William Shakespeare

Life is a bowl of cherries just make sure you spit out the pits

— Dawson C. Walton

I think you can use fiction to get inside people's minds.

— Don Winslow

I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction.

— Hill Harper

“Charlotte made a promise to herself then and there: If I ever see someone fall, I'll ask if they're okay. ”

— Erin Entrada Kelly

I truly love science fiction; it's feeling you're something more than your present position in the world.

— David Hewlett

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

— Sandra Cisneros

Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.

— W. Somerset Maugham