Fiction Quotes
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I've written some short stories about my personal experience, but it's not something you can use everywhere. Every novel, every work of fiction, needs its own food.
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I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'
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I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.
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My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.
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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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I had a conversation with a biologist in an art gallery, and he persuaded me that it was possible to grow a dress from microbes. It was the craziest thing I had ever heard, but I'm a bit of a science fiction fan and I thought it sounded like an interesting challenge.
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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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Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.
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I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure of truth.
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Fiction doesn't appeal to me because it can describe physical appearances exhaustively or because it can offer access to the inner depths of an array of human characters - neither that kind of "realism" of bodily surfaces nor of individual psychologies seems particularly realistic to me.
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Dedicated to helping you create strong, vibrant, and beautiful fiction
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Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.
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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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I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past.
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When you say that you write romantic fiction, there are a lot of people who have an image in their mind of the 'bodice ripper.' It's the one term that most romantic fiction writers absolutely hate because it has no bearing on what people are writing.
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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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A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity always modifies the effect of the evidence, and sometimes transforms it entirely.
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Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.
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Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.
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Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish all science fiction novels could be this good.
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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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Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story.
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I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.
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Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much of this is your life. The story is a way you unravel your life from behind a mask.
