Fiction Quotes · Page 65

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.

— Nancy Mairs

I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.

— William Styron

There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction.

— Ken Follett

Interestingly enough, Aurthur C. Clarke once autographed a copy of his book "Rendezvous with Rama" for me.

— Frederick Lenz

Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.

— Eamon de Valera

“Faction” is a type of historical fiction that combines fact with fiction.”

— Martin Herman

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

— Piers Anthony

I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same…

— China Mieville

In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more freedom in fiction writing.

— Maria Semple

“Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel.”

— Priya Ardis

“Lo! A call for a bloody trial- Retribution should it hail! Whose? you ask, For he that deems it a worthy task!”

— Carol Robi

For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to…

— Daniel Alarcon

I like to come back to the science fiction of Stanislaw Lem. He is comforting but also funny, and although I know…

— Olga Tokarczuk

Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal…

— Carol Anshaw

In the first 27 years of my life, I never had written a single non-technical word. I went to engineering college and…

— Karan Bajaj

I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing…

— Zadie Smith

I have never written a book that I wouldn't want to read. The trouble is, I love to read horror, sf, fantasy,…

— F. Paul Wilson

“Placing his suitcase on the seat next to him, he unbuttoned his suit jacket, loosened up his necktie and removed his fedora.…

— Peprah Boasiako

A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around…

— Dylan Moran

“Jack gave her a fierce look. “Your mother gave up the best thing she had in her life. I know you miss…

— Lindy Zart

“Stories serve multiple purposes. At a basic level they are great entertainment, which is essential for living a happy and healthy life,…

— Dean F. Wilson

Valerie Martin was my mentor in college and she liked fiction that said something. That made it essential to have something to…

— Sabina Murray

Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction writers have other ideas: balloon-like creatures floating in…

— Martin Rees

“The only unforgivable sin is to look into the human heart without compassion.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful.

— Mira Nair

“Literature is not an instruction manual. For obvious reasons, this is rarely noted in fiction.”

— Charles Baxter

Every photo is almost a fiction or a dream. If it's really good, it's another form of life.

— Sylvia Plachy

I wouldn't define myself as the girl from 'Pulp Fiction.'

— Maria de Medeiros

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

— Connie Willis

The most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today.

— Lee Child

I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'

— Sara Shepard

“If you find that you're going through hell, keep moving. You will get to the end eventually.”

— Kimberly Brouillette

“Sure, Bob Dylan had some good songs. But he could have been a doctor.”

— R.S. Gompertz

“Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.”

— K. Ritz

“Science fiction is about using speculative scenarios as a lens to examine the human condition.”

— Ted Chiang

I always like Iain Banks science fiction stuff and William Gibson's cyberpunk stuff from the 1980s.

— Alastair Reynolds

One of the most subtle and powerful writers of dark fiction - a unique voice.

— Michael Marshall Smith

Enjoy the tiny unexplainable second. You can learn whatever you want.

— Jerril Thomas Abraham

Never anger a sci-fi writer. These people destroy entire planets over lunch. Imagine what they'll do to you.

— John Scalzi