Fiction Quotes · Page 87

“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

“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

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up…

— Neil Gaiman

Science fiction is where I started out, really. When I was a kid, I was a complete addict of science fiction. It…

— Salman Rushdie

“We have our stories, and we speak of them, and weave them into other people's stories - that's how it goes, does…

— Susan Fletcher

I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn't set out…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's…

— Paul Haggis

So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's…

— Jerry Pournelle

My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for…

— Daniel Handler

Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction…

— Brad Holland

“I need fiction, I am an addict. This is not a figure of speech. I don’t quite read a novel a day,…

— Francis Spufford

“  “Yes, well, I thought you should see it. The cover page is in Arabic scribblin’, but the next hundred-plus pages are…

— Karl Braungart

The 'enduring theme' [in fiction] of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to…

— Warren Farrell

“She smiled sinisterly. Light mist started to slowly swirl around us. All I could see was her, the tall rocks and the…

— Erica Sehyun Song

“Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing…

— Eudora Welty

“Once out of the mailroom, I began to learn more about fear. As soon as fear begins to ascend, anatomically, from the…

— Don DeLillo

Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'.…

— Ron Rash

The satisfaction of short fiction does not come close to the rich pleasure I get as a writer in the long deep…

— Vera Nazarian

“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

A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

— Edward Albee

I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death.

— Clive Barker

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

— Gore Vidal

...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go.

— Anonymous

I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction.

— Peter Benchley

“My eyes refuse to let him leave, but he stands still holding my hand, lingering for as long as possible.”

— Thomas Sweeney

I don't like to read fiction. I like to learn something when I'm reading.

— Lewis Hamilton

That's part of fiction, creating a world better than the one you live in.

— Padgett Powell

“Good writers may “tell” about almost anything in fiction except the characters’ feelings.”

— John Gardner

The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing.

— Lucy Poate Stebbins

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

— C. J. Cherryh

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

— David Nicholls

I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry.

— Suzan-Lori Parks