Fiction Quotes
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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I love science fiction.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.
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As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.
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Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.
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I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale. And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what’s to come, so I think that’s really interesting.
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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When we look at a good deal of serious modern fiction, and particularly Southern fiction, we find this quality about it that is generally described, in a pejorative sense, as grotesque. Of course, I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.... Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.
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Medicine is a supremely useful profession. Fiction writing is not.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
