Fiction Quotes · Page 83

I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.

— Lorde

Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“I always prefer fiction. Anything else feels like homework.”

— AnnaLisa Grant

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

— Ray Bradbury

“They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“ Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses." Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously.”

— Carrie Fisher

“Ghosts often exist even in the bodies of people we love.”

— Scott Bradfield

“Stallions," Frank said, "they're fightin' over a girl. - DANIEL'S ESPERANZA”

— Veronica Randolph Batterson

“There'd always been an understanding between Havemercy and me; that we'd kill any man who came between us. I was holding up…

— Jaida Jones

Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is…

— Jonathan Swift

The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, ... but they are, singly, as nothing without the…

— Henry James

“But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction. If…

— David Eddings

Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want…

— John Updike

I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I…

— R. L. Stine

It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to…

— Winston Churchill

I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who…

— Fred Saberhagen

Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the…

— Iain Banks

“When you read the account of a murder - or, say, a fiction story based on murder - you usually begin with…

— Agatha Christie

Seduction is an absolute pleasure to read -- clever, suspenseful, exciting, mysterious, learned, and engrossing. Some of the best historical fiction I've…

— David Liss

“What are you doing with all these books?" I asked, stepping towards a tall stack on the floor. I ran my fingers…

— Anna Carey

The fatal flaw of most utopian visions is that they're fundamentally static, and that's not a comfortable place for humans to live.…

— Christine Jennings

My motto is: write about anything you bloody well like; just make sure you do it effectively. We've all had all the…

— Suhayl Saadi

Most of what I do is science fiction. Some of the things I do are fantasy. I don't like the labels, they're…

— Octavia Butler

The idea of absolute freedom is fiction. It's based on the idea of an independent self. But in fact, there's no such…

— Peter Coyote

Every time I wrote fiction, I was discouraged, and every time I wrote nonfiction, I was encouraged.

— Ron Chernow

Fiction needs writers and readers, and writers should cultivate both.

— Laura Lippman

“What's more important than recycling? Producing something to recycle.”

— Gordon Osmond

“Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug.”

— John Steinbeck

fiction is founded on truth…unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

— Agatha Christie

“An exceptional woman with all the desired qualities exists only in a man's imagination.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“This is the power and promise of science fiction, this magic of creating and living in every possible future.”

— Kameron Hurley

Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

— Ian Rankin

Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.

— Stephen Hawking

“These scars that we have... they don't go away. They only fade with time, but they're still hauntingly there.”

— Taylor Keys

In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown.

— Ridley Scott

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

— David Foster Wallace

Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.

— David Walliams

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

— Margaret Atwood

“If you make fiction just as valuable as reality, then any reality you don't need can be a delusion”

— Ryohgo Narita

I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.

— Charlie Brooker