Fiction Quotes · Page 85

If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters.

— Jane Gardam

I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.

— Judy Blume

“I love fiction that sound like fact… and fact that sounds like fiction.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

“Sometimes it’s what you can’t have that you desire the most,”

— Grace Willows

I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal.

— Kwame Dawes

“Our friend Chewy doesn’t speak much, but he chews a lot of tobacco so we call him Chewbacco.”

— Michael Diack

[She] always knew he was a fiction but believed in him anyway.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

In fiction 'issues' are accidental, sometimes incidental. The place and the people it creates are paramount.

— Tim Winton

Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative…

— Kristina McMorris

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing…

— Aleksandar Hemon

No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.

— H. P. Lovecraft

Fiction tends to spread farther than nonfiction - and as a filmmaker, it's important to be cognizant of not perpetuating the same…

— Nia DaCosta

I may be the person who put "dieselpunk" into the conversation. I have always been a reader who reads in a really…

— Emily Barton

“Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching…

— Fay Weldon

It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down…

— Lembit Opik

Visa for Avalon is a testament to the power of fiction. It illuminates the truth at the heart of what is commonly…

— Azar Nafisi

“The pupil of a goat's eye is elongate like a cat's, but if you look closely you'll see that it's in the…

— Eugene Marten

“WEST SALEM ~ October 2011 A sudden vision, fraught with malevolence and darkness, obscured her sight. The face of a menacing figure…

— Cherie De Sues

“While I stood on the front porch, watching him climb into his vehicle, I breathed in the humid air. I looked at…

— Debra Kay

It had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science…

— William Gibson

Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me…

— John Green

My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm…

— Rachel Nichols

A good novel is something that challenges perception, that allows you to see the world anew through a different point of view…

— Justin Cartwright

The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling.

— A. B. Yehoshua

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

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

— Marian Keyes

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

— Pauline Chalamet

“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

“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