Fiction Quotes · Page 72

“This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it.”

— K. Ritz

As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.

— Stephen King

“Fiction should be specific rather than general, because people are specific.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

— Gore Vidal

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

— Neil LaBute

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.

— Julian Schnabel

I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.

— J. Michael Straczynski

If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up.

— John Dufresne

“No fiction is good fiction unless it is true to life, and yet no life is worth relating unless it be a…

— William Gerhardie

“Not all fiction writers are evil, just the ones good at their job. After all, it's not a decent book if it…

— Ellie Rose McKee

“There is a difference between fiction and nonfiction deeper than technique or intention. I value both but genuinely believe that fiction can…

— Dorothy L. Sayersthy Allison

I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours…

— Arthur Smith

Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world…

— Akhil Sharma

“Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it. It can be done. You…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

— Paul Auster

“His smile is beautiful. It's the kind of smile that can take away all nervousness and tension in a room, no matter…

— S. Elle Cameron

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can…

— George Saunders

Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book…

— Janet Morris

We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive ages, the just and…

— Charles Dickens

“She imagined all the mothers of the unnamed children, imagined the ad cut from the paper, a mother writing her child’s name…

— Douglas Weissman

“Bill nodded, but he didn’t look hopeful. “The H-H-Himalayans had a rih-hi-hitual to g-get rih-rid of i-i-it, but ih-it’s pretty gruh-gruh-gruesome.” They…

— Stephen King

When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my…

— Ray Bradbury

For me as a kid, reading cyberpunk was like seeing the world for the first time. Gibson's Neuromancer wasn't just stylistically stunning;…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

“A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.

— Anonymous

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

— Flannery O'Connor

“Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.”

— Aljean Harmetz

“Forcing the muse to let thoughts flow; equals to pushing a child, into labor.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar

Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

— Arundhati Roy

“I felt numb, I felt empty. I was a shell, an abandoned chrysalis, a tomb lying in wait for the dead”

— Amy Hatvany

“Emma was doing something nice for Simon? Hell must be enjoying the snow day.”

— E.J. Stevens

Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

— Jack Kerouac

“Can you imagine how many people got laid in here?" Abby said, walking to the other side of the Jacuzzi.”

— J.C. Henderson

Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear.

— Joss Whedon

What got my interested in science fiction was actually the American space program.

— Ronald D. Moore

“Grief is like an ocean. It comes in waves - some waves are bigger than others and you cannot prepare for it.”

— Summer Lane

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

— E. L. Doctorow

One of my favorite things about supernatural fiction is its vast array of creatures.

— Jeaniene Frost

“I stomp back to my room. Queen Titania is not marrying Prince Holden.”

— Tricia Copeland