Fiction Quotes
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By all the rules of modern fiction there should have been gunsmoke mingling its acrid blue with the brown haze of corral dust. Dead men should have fallen and been trampled... Nothing of this sort happened.
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Humanity lives in its fiction.
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This is one of the ways fiction is more liberating than nonfiction - I don't have to be so concerned with fact. I had the paradigm of certain people in my head who became my characters, but I never considered these people to be from a "certain sector of society," unless we agree that we're all from certain sectors of society.
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.
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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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Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.
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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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Being able to write creatively or read creative fiction is the best way to exercise your imagination.
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Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.
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Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.
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The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.
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Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to invent a fictive self.
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I haven't written adult fiction, but I do not sugarcoat grief - or what I expect grief to be.
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Some years ago, someone had come up with the idea that the State should hold all Titles to vehicles, mailing a Certificate of Title to the 'owners'. This created a legal fiction that the State owned the vehicles. Drivers were thus driving a State owned vehicle, mandating drivers must have a license to drive a State vehicle, which was false. The State reaped many millions with its drivers license scam, and began issuing heavy fines for not having a State license.
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Even people that were never interested in science fiction are interested in STAR TREK.
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Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.
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I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.
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Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
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There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information.
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In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.
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I'm most interested in people who've lived life in the extreme, which is what draws me to crime fiction.
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Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.
