Fiction Quote by Tony Pulis

“Doesn't every previous era feel like fiction once it's gone?”

— Karen Thompson Walker

I read certain things about history. I don't like fiction. I read about stuff that's real, stuff that's goin' on in the world.

— Prodigy

“I like to think about how my parents' lives once shimmered in front of them, half hidden, like buried gold. Back then the future…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my…

— Jenny Offill

Several members of my family have, or have had, one form of dementia or another. I really wanted to explore what it might like…

— Emma Healey

I like books steeped in the quotidian - details about work and place. You can learn how to run a chicken-and-waffle restaurant by reading…

— Laura Lippman

“I do believe that you can never know yourself let alone the person next to you let alone the person halfway across the world.…

— Nam Le

I think one of the reasons that I like fiction versus nonfiction is that I myself can kind of disappear from the story.

— Celeste Ng

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.

— Haruki Murakami

“Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory…

— Haruki Murakami

“Science Fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is going on, what people actually…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The…

— Stanley Kubrick

I was in my senior year of high school when I read 'Notes From Underground' by Dostoyevsky, and it was an exhilarating discovery. I…

— Claire Messud

“Write non-fiction like fiction, so the reader is constantly turning the page to find out what happens next, and write fiction like non-fiction, so…

— Jeffrey Robinson

“I love fiction that sound like fact… and fact that sounds like fiction.”

— Ashwin Sanghi