Fiction Quotes · Page 75

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Fiction is the most dangerous place in the world; that’s where truth lives.”

— Karina Szczurek

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

— Anita Diament

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

— Doris Lessing

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

— Katherine Anne Porter

“As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.”

— Alison Croggon

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

— Richard Paul Evans

It took me a lot of times watching it that I started to appreciate 'Pulp Fiction.'

— Christoph Waltz

I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et…

— Helen Oyeyemi

Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take…

— Sara Sheridan

“Arthur C. Clark wrote: Science fiction is something that could happen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something…

— James M. Corkill

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

— Al Sharpton

“For a long time, Maurice rubbed his shaved head in his palm, until at last he looked up at his student. "Teo,…

— Bryan M. Litfin

...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like…

— Sarah Caudwell

“What if the killer was here? He or she could be standing behind Laurel at this very moment. Laurel shivered again. She…

— Tayler Marie Brooks

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the…

— Manuel Puig

“I liked reading biographies of writers, even if (as was the case with Monsieur Rabelais)I'd never read any of their actual writing.…

— John Green

In a sense, fantasy is a freer play of the imagination. You can achieve exactly the situation you want with less groundwork,…

— Roger Zelazny

The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first…

— George R. R. Martin

I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people…

— Jo Walton

Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose.…

— Hilary Mantel

If I write a paragraph and I don't get a certain lift from it, if I don't feel connected to it emotionally,…

— Oscar Hijuelos

Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise…

— Samuel R. Delany

In fiction, I tend to write fairly realistic dialogue-not always, and it tends to vary from book to book. But in many…

— Don DeLillo

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

— Iain Banks

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

— Mark Twain

My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street.

— Rick James

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

— Jodi Picoult

If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

— Yann Martel

Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.

— H. L. Mencken

“The human heart Is unknowable. But in my birthplace The flowers still smell The same as always.”

— Rumer Godden

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

— William Faulkner

A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section.

— Steve Maraboli

The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.

— James Lasdun

Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.

— Ray Bradbury

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

— Regina Spektor

“Nonsense, this is my home and I must defend it. It’s time for Santa to get serious.”

— Michael Diack

“You look like shit.” “Thanks. I look way better than I feel.”

— J.T. Lawrence

“I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren't any.”

— Teri Louise Kelly

“But there are times, I would argue, when fiction delivers the greater truth.”

— Leslie Cockburn