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Fiction Quotes by Eudora Welty
- Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its…
- The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves,…
- Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the…
- Human life is fiction's only theme.
- Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.
- Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory,…
- Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and…
- Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak,…
- It is our inward journey that leads us through time – forward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiraling. Each of us…
- There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.
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