Fiction Quote by Brian K. Vaughan

What we remember is probably fiction anyway.

— Beryl Bainbridge

“Doesn't every previous era feel like fiction once it's gone?”

— Karen Thompson Walker

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

— John Green

As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.

— Andrew Bacevich

What seems real one moment is fiction the next and gone out of existence the moment after that. Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of…

— David Budbill

It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.

— Wendell Berry

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

— Richard Attenborough

I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I read many wonderful novels, though I now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.

— Alix Kates Shulman

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

— Stephen King

I think people are always saying things are 'over.' Fiction has been regularly 'over' since the 19th century.

— Claire Tomalin