Fiction Quotes · Page 68

Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good.

— Ken Bruen

“The Tanzanian told her that all fiction was therapy, some sort of therapy, no matter what anybody said.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

— Roddy Doyle

I love space opera, and I believe that every sub-genre has potential no matter how old it is.

— Erica Brown

Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn't always have time to do or say the right things.

— Bentley Little

Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood,don't write fiction.

— Mary Gaitskill

“Writing to me is like being addicted to heroin… it’s hard and its mean, but you just can’t stop.”

— F.D. Crandall

Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator,…

— Thomas Berry

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and…

— Joe Wilson

“...it’s my job to lead you to success, and, if you fail, it’s because I failed, not you.’” (Spoken by Bracke, told…

— Shannon A. Thompson

I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of…

— Olivia Wilde

I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I don't think…

— Colum McCann

“It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created as…

— Paul Louis Couchoud

My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.

— James Dyson

In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made,…

— Edward P. Jones

There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having…

— Flannery O'Connor

Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should…

— Arundhati Roy

“..giving power to negative thoughts or fears was bringing ideas to life in physical world,idea in mind became emotion in heart,emotion turned…

— Christina Westover

Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had…

— Edmund White

At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why…

— Orson Scott Card

If you look at the most meaningful science fiction, it didn't come from watching other films. We seem to be in a…

— Neill Blomkamp

“He had dreamt about a dark-haired foreign boy. This boy held the key to the undoing of their demise. He had carried…

— Mary K. Savarese

They have an amazing proliferation of TV channels now: The all-cartoon channel, the 24-hour-science fiction channel. Of course, to make room for…

— Dennis Miller

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

— John Hersey

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

— Dennis Lehane

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

— Katharine Kerr

“This is love not business or politics. I love someone. How can I replace her with someone else?”

— Pramod Verma

“Life is just as deadly as it looks, but fiction is more forgiving.”

— Richard Thompson

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

— Ray Bradbury

“I am strong and skilled in battle, and I know how to defend what’s mine.” - Koll in Mating Season”

— Allie Ritch

Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas.

— Carl Sagan

Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

— Mark Twain

I had a lot of really emo stories as a kid. I wrote a lot of fan fiction.

— Marie Lu

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

— Giles Foden

I wanted to learn about the worlds I wanted to write about in fiction.

— Michael Connelly

“Once you realize that the imagination is non-fiction, the world is yours”

— Carl Henegan

The range of my interests in science fiction - it really does run a gamut.

— Laeta Kalogridis

“woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and”

— Virginia Woolf

I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.

— Mark Haddon