Fiction Quote by david foster wallace

You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions.

— Paul Auster

There's this whole kind of fiction and image that marriage is perfect.

— Ant Anstead

I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

These novels [Zombie, My Sister, My Love] are so special to me. [I don't expect that they will have nearly the same significance to…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.

— China Mieville

Now, I'm a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people's imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn't. Conservatives typically…

— Joel C. Rosenberg

Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at what we…

— Samuel R. Delany

A lot of fiction doesn't answer a question that any reasonable person would ever ask.

— Elif Batuman

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

— Jodi Picoult

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

— Warren Ellis

Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

— Leo Tolstoy

Fiction doesn't appeal to me because it can describe physical appearances exhaustively or because it can offer access to the inner depths of an…

— Ben Lerner