Fiction Quotes
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As for whether genre considerations influence what I write, they don't at all, but I might sell more books if they did. The Night Journal is a hodge-podge of historical fiction, western, mystery, and contemporary domestic drama. It doesn't settle into a specific market, reviewers have a hard time describing it, and sometimes it gets classified weirdly in bookstores. But from a writer's standpoint, I like that it's hard to categorize.
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Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.
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I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly bound blog posts or transcribed sitcoms.
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The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just share it, but to spread it and to cause change to happen. You can do that in at least three ways: with research (your own or reporting on others), by building and describing conceptual structures, or with stories that resonate.
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If there’s a zeppelin, it’s alternate history. If there’s a rocketship, it’s science fiction. If there are swords and/or horses, it’s fantasy. A book with swords and horses in it can be turned into science fiction by adding a rocketship to the mix. If a book has a rocketship in it, the only thing that can turn it back into fantasy is the Holy Grail.
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Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.
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The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.
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Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.
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Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others
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I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.
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Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.
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Reality is in the business of killing off fiction.
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I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.
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I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'
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Writing fiction is fundamentally an irrational act.
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Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular.
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I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.
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Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.
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It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.
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A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.
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The anger is useful too because when things about the world upset you, that is really a fertile feeling to channel into fiction and to put out into books.
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Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.
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As Dorothy J. Heydt famously said, the eight deadliest words for any work of fiction are 'I don't care what happens to these people.
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The truer the facts the better the fiction.
