Fiction Quotes · Page 63

“Friendship is just love that has yet to sprout wings and take flight.”

— Kristen Reed

Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.

— Suzanne Curchod

Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.

— Charlaine Harris

“She stabbed the earth with her big fork as if she could make Cookie Mac’s blood sprout from it.”

— Susan Rowland

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

— David Benioff

I will literally read anything, regardless of genre, fiction or non-fiction, as long as it's well written.

— Diana Gabaldon

“If the shining sun blinds the eye,it makes sense. But to be blinded by gold and silver!”

— I.R. Shankar

I didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

— Ira Glass

“Yako went to the boxes holding Lilly and Candice, undid the bungee cords, and opened them. She used smelling salts to arouse…

— Karl Braungart

I think science fiction gives us a wonderful toolkit to disassemble and reexamine this kind of incomprehensible, constantly changing present that we…

— William Gibson

I guess that's the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either.…

— Philip K. Dick

I've been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back - I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon,…

— Rachel Caine

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.'

— Bharati Mukherjee

“Mary’s hands clenched. She’d been through fire, what with a murder, and white supremacists. And what about Caroline, who had gone undercover…

— Susan Rowland

I'm reasonably good at talking onstage, but actually holding court in a pub is all to do with power dynamics which I…

— Ned Beauman

The thing that's interesting about science fiction is that it is always, when it is done well, a lens on our world.…

— Simon Kinberg

I actually am grateful for Freddy Krueger, because the big surprise to me - with that sort of double punch of science…

— Robert Englund

In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do…

— Flannery O'Connor

As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we…

— John Brunner

“But now she could not bear the way she sounded. She was not a person anyone could love. ... And thus fled…

— Peter Carey

“...[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

In older science fiction stories, they had to rely on storytelling as opposed to spectacle. The old run of the 'Twilight Zone,'…

— Josh Trank

I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write…

— Marge Piercy

Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated…

— Walter Jon Williams

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

— Lauren Groff

Fiction writing and journalism, in my experience, are really excellent training grounds for each other.

— Monica Hesse

All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.

— Norman Spinrad

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

— Robert Reed

“If everything comes in your way just the way you wanted them to ,then you're probably in the wrong lane.”

— Arkopaul

Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

— Elizabeth Bowen

American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

— Gary Shteyngart

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

— Martin Lewis Perl

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

— Allen Ginsberg

Fact is only what you believe and fact and fiction work as a team.

— Jack Johnson

“The glory of fiction is in its falseness, but the impact of fiction is found in its painful reality.”

— R.W.K. Clark

Steampunk is...the love child of Hot Topic and a BBC costume drama

— Gail Carriger

“I use Fiction to face Reality And write dark Stories in hope to brighten my Path.”

— A. Mani

We need more science, but what we especially need is science fiction.

— Dale Jamieson

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

— Frederik Pohl

It's fun to be able to invent fiction, but I like real stories, better.

— Alisyn Camerota