Fiction Quote by Harry Turtledove Download Open image “Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.” — Harry Turtledove ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Funny Happens History Inspirational Love Plausible
The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I do a great deal of research. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘That could not have happened.’ It may be fiction, but it… — Jacquelyn Mitchard Copy Share Image
“History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of… — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us this is… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.~Victor Radcliff” — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
Plausible development, building from what we know about what really did go on, and a whacking good story… Surrounded by Enemies delivers on both,… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
I learned by reading an awful lot and by writing a half a million words of stuff nobody would do anything with except wrap… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
“They were having a good time, an adventure. That was January’s dominant impression of his companions in the 509th; despite all the bitching and… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
“He gathered enthusiasm when he thought of the goal, and not the means by which he had accomplished it.” — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
“You know what Forrest had the nerve to do?” “Son of a bitch has the nerve to do damn near anything. That's what makes… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
I first tried a novel when I was 14. First finished one when I was 16. First started working on stuff that had a… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
“He said, “You misunderstand. We did not kill the nuggies and the other folk hereabouts. They see us, and then they commonly die.” “Of… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
“Caudell hadn't touched a firearm since he left the army. His hands, he discovered, still knew what to do. The smell of oil and… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I love writing fiction and can do it anywhere - I once even missed a flight because I was so engrossed. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
