Best Fiction Lines

2465 Fiction quotes by 1384 unique authors

I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds. — S. J. Perelman
The president already has a Nobel Prize for peace. I think he's shooting for one in fiction. — Trey Gowdy
I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can… — Mark Goddard
Nuclear terrorism is still often treated as science fiction. I wish it were. But unfortunately we live in a world of excess hazardous materials and… — Kofi Annan
I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil. — William Styron
I think fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition. — Ethan Canin
Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its… — Eudora Welty
The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be so exhibited that… — Percy Lubbock
The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and… — Flannery O'Connor
Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement. — Raymond Carver
Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another. — Elizabeth Bowen
The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty. — Edmund Gosse
This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at… — Mario Vargas Llosa
The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself. — Flannery O'Connor
Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time. — Deborah Eisenberg
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. — William Shakespeare
We are living in a science-fiction nightmare where children are gasping for breath on bad-air days because somebody gave money to a politician. And my… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
The trouble with science fiction is that you can write about everything: time, space, all the future, all the past, all of the universe, any… — Unknown Author
Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction. — Damon Knight
To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in real life and… — Louis Auchincloss
In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the… — Ben Bova
What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority… — E L Doctorow
To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the… — Aldous Huxley
A science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, that would not have happened at all without its scientific… — Theodore Sturgeon
Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything. — Ivana Trump

Who Wrote These Fiction Quotes

1,384 authors contributed a total of 2,465 Fiction Quotes, led by these top contributors:

Best Fiction Lines

More Ways to Read Fiction Quotes

Who Wrote These Fiction Quotes