Art Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art.

— Vladimir Nabokov

With fiction, you are creating an imaginary world. And it can be a very mechanical process. In a fictional film, you create the characters…

— Mano Khalil

I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.

— Aleksandar Hemon

“To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

When I read any book, if it's really good I get lost in the writing whether it's fiction or non-fiction. I'm in the story…

— Jeff Feuerzeig

“We are now in a position to determine just what sort of science fiction story this really is.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

“For my purpose, the non-fiction form of abstract knowledge doesn’t interest me; the final, applied form of fiction, of story, does.”

— Ayn Rand

I cannot manage fiction with the story line and the schedules. Even if I am short of EMIs, I will not do fiction on…

— Sunil Grover

“Science fiction is the arena of the not-yet, and every science fiction story has this element of not-yet-ness — usually a bit of technology…

— Welch Everman

A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without…

— Theodore Sturgeon

Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says?

— Helen McCloy

“There is a moment, in all my studying of movies and scripts, that I’d realized something elemental about human beings and why I’d been…

— C.J. Roberts