Fiction Quotes
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
Yann Martel
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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.
Tahmoh Penikett
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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.
Damon Knight
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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.
Don DeLillo
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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.
Karan Mahajan
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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Oscar Wilde
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
Walter Salles
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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.
Conor Oberst
Bright Eyes
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
Damon Galgut
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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.
Flannery O'Connor