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Fiction Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want to see or…
- Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz and John Grisham…
- You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a…
- Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties - all…
- I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.
- Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in…
- Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.
- Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but…
- Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.
- Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did it without ever…
- Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience is…
- In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and…
- There's a kind of Ah-ha! Somebody at least for a moment feels about something or sees something the way that I do. It doesn't happen…
- We all suffer alone in the real world. True empathy's impossible. But if a piece of fiction can alow us imaginatively to identify with a…
- Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as…
- Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.
More Fiction Quotes
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov
- Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very… — Kate Atkinson
- Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood
- Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that. — Margaret Atwood
- Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets. — Margaret Atwood
- Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see. — Margaret Atwood
- All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood
- Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other… — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood