Fiction Quotes · Page 80

Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.

— Paul Theroux

It often happens that people come to believe in their own fictions.

— Robert Rhodes James

Will Shatner, Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek have already put novels out.

— Bruce Boxleitner

You don't know reality until someone makes a fiction of it. Reality needs the completion of fiction.

— Tony Wilson

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.

— Fred Saberhagen

“Although nobody could ever know about our friendship, that wasn’t going to stop us from being together.”

— Erica Sehyun Song

I much prefer writing fiction. History books, for me, are very hard work, very serious.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica.”

— Jane Austen

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just…

— Karen Russell

But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about…

— Anonymous

Serial fiction is a conceit of comic books and soap operas. As one goes, so goes the other in terms of public…

— Mark Waid

Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it's going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas…

— Barbara Kingsolver

When I was a young man in school, I used to read science fiction and really liked it. And as I became…

— Douglas Trumbull

“She was merely an actress who had been forced to perform her part on stage without fully knowing her lines. She was…

— Erica Sehyun Song

When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish…

— Douglas Preston

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in…

— Stephen King

“Grover spit expertly between his teeth. "You know, Nerburn," he said, "you're like those treaty negotiators we used to have to deal…

— Kent Nerburn

Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner…

— Michael O'Brien

“Probably your biggest mistake was doing funk-dance to Unchained Melody,” the dog offered earnestly. “It’s a ballad, Alf, and to be honest,…

— Mark Jackman

“My worry is that they will look down on our enemies. They have seen the Arabs in these mud towns and think…

— Nigel Seed

Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to…

— Marilynne Robinson

“In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades.…

— Ray Bradbury

...if there is a widely shared concept of intentional action... a philosophical analysis of intentional action that is wholly unconstrained by that…

— Alfred Mele

“Before we go on from here, I just want to say," he paused and took a step closer to me and reached…

— S.G. Holster

“Fiction is a great combination between experience and imagination.”

— Desi Puspitasari

Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people.

— Adam Ross

I had originally been looking at writing, including fiction.

— Ben Rhodes

I've never been a great fan of crime fiction. I read Agatha Christie in my youth, but that's all.

— Olga Tokarczuk

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

— Vernor Vinge

The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There's this whole kind of fiction and image that marriage is perfect.

— Ant Anstead

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

— Anonymous

Simply put, Redeeming Love is the most powerful work of fiction you will ever read.

— Liz Curtis Higgs

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

— Joanna Russ

Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.

— Erma Bombeck

Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

— Ray Bradbury

So much of what I write in fiction is based on true stories.

— Mark Kurlansky

“Only you know what's really floating around in your mind. Call it fiction and keep everyone guessing.”

— Richard Myerscough

“Why are you always so averse to fiction, when we’ve made it our meal ticket?”

— Scott Lynch

“..home INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.”

— Christina Westover