Fiction Quotes · Page 73

Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.

— Julian Barnes

When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.

— Michael Connelly

“If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better”.”

— Alexandar Tomov

“Love is not measured by acts or years, but by truth between two people.”

— Evan Meekins

I read both in French and English and often a couple of books at once, mixing fiction and non-fiction.

— Pauline Chalamet

For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.

— Marian Keyes

“Do you think we can be friends?” I asked. He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.”

— Priya Ardis

I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.

— Alexandra Fuller

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography…

— Rachel Carson

My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by…

— Tom Rachman

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are…

— Buddy Ebsen

For me, the distant future and far-off galaxies is where it's at. That's where my imagination can really come out to play.

— Alastair Reynolds

Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years…

— Bill Mumy

Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't…

— Flannery O'Connor

Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead.…

— Red Smith

It was Sci-Fi and fantasy that got me reading, and Sci-Fi writers in particular have pack rat minds. They introduce all sorts…

— Terry Pratchett

“My nation, as all nations, is becoming a land without peace, without thought, without mind, Madam Abbess. We are suffocating our spirits…

— Rumer Godden

“Day in and day out we learn to train and grow as Guardians. We do as we're told and follow the rules.…

— Wendy Owens

“The beauty of science fiction was that its authors never had to work out the logistics of how we would arrive in…

— Emily Witt

I find it interesting that authors of fantasy and science fiction novels are rarely asked if their books are based on their…

— Malinda Lo

“We read a good novel not in order to know more people, but in order to know fewer. Instead of the humming…

— G.K. Chesterton

“I always tell people that if they want to know about the history of a country, do not go to the history…

— Chenjerai Hove

The end of all stories, even if the writer forebears to mention it, is death, which is where time stops short. Sheherezade…

— Angela Carter

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

— Francine Prose

“We are now in a position to determine just what sort of science fiction story this really is.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.

— Michio Kaku

“What will I do if I find myself with a heart?" "Lose it constantly, I imagine.”

— Gregory Maguire

The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.

— Valerie Plame

I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.

— Lauren Oliver

“His allure, as he stood there, his face, even with the red swollen eyes, everything about him was gorgeous.”

— Maryam Schonbeck

“Her kiss could kill us, and my consent signed our death certificates, selfishly and without control. (Eric)”

— Shannon A. Thompson

Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...

— Richard Bach

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I feel that entertainment happens when fact and fiction is balanced.

— Fahadh Faasil

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life

— Martin Amis

“You cannot discover new oceans until you are willing to lose sight of the shore.”

— Sharon Leaf

“The times have changed and now the story is old, but yet it all remains the same, a victim in the cold.”

— Stephen Harker

“Doesn't every previous era feel like fiction once it's gone?”

— Karen Thompson Walker

“Writing is just building a new world – one character, one place, one maniac at a time.”

— Amaya Ellman