Fiction Quotes
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I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
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I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.
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I love magic and playing with magic systems. But to me, good fantasy like all fiction comes down to good character and plotting.
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The subject of feminism cannot be purely a fiction, as some postmodern writers suggest, produced by the discourses of power.
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The best fiction is often how we interpret our own lives and what we see as our common due. It is created usually as a means of avoiding reality which, if seriously considered, might negate our ability to strive for what might seem impossible.
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In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and compelling nonfiction are not always identical to the ones that make good fiction.
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I don't think of myself as being particulary a subversive writer, but I like to think that my work could afford someone else, the extra degree of freedom that I found when I first found science fiction.
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Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the social fabric, giving you roots and a local identity. You are assimilated, and in erasing your differences and making you one of their own, the community can maintain belief in its wholeness and purity. After two or three generations, nobody remembers the story is fiction. It has become fact. And this is how history is made.
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In the theory of evolution there is no talk of God and no Bibles are used. They're not looking for higher powers, extraterrestrials, or anything else that could be found in the science fiction section, because they are not dealing with fiction.
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I always tell people that if they want to know about the history of a country, do not go to the history books, go to the fiction. Fiction is not fiction. It is the substance and heartbeat of a people's life, here, now, and in the past.
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A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
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I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot longer to figure out how to write a story.
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Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.
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My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.
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When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.
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Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who's here? Who's coming?
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Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us to live a new life there; its painstaking devotion to what without it might go unnoticed and unseen; its respect for contingency, and the unlikely and odd; its willingness to expose itself to moments of low, almost animal being and make them nobly illuminating, can deliver truths we might not otherwise stumble on.
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when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.
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Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.
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If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough
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My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.
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There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.
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Dedicated to helping you create strong, vibrant, and beautiful fiction
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With the historical fictions, I was already doing so much research, and so much of the stories was anchored by historical truth that the move to nonfiction didn't feel all that dramatic - just another half-step to the right.
