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Fiction Quotes by Jodi Picoult
- I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose…
- I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow…
- I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.
- When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of…
- I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or pink. I think…
- If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of…
- Witness testimony is always flawed. It's better than circumstantial evidence, sure, but people aren't camcorders; they don't record every action and reaction, and the very…
- Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.
- Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes, because…
- Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's freely given can't…
- That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?
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