Fiction Quotes
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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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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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People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.
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Reality is in the business of killing off 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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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
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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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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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Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular.
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I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'
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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 am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
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As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.
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When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.
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Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction.
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I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.
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I think what people really want is fiction that in some tiny way makes their life more meaningful and makes the world seem like a richer place. The world is awfully short on joy and richness, and I think to some extent it’s the fiction writer’s job to salvage some of that and to give it to us in ways that we can believe in.
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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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Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.
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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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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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Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.
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Unbreakable is a little bit Starship Troopers and a little bit Esmay Suiza, with a dash of Firefly for flavor. W. C. Bauers gives us everything we want in our military science fiction, but never allows the hardware and action to overshadow Paen and everyone else caught in the crossfire.
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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.
