Fiction Quotes
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Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, an ever-growing number of established non-fiction writers - Giles Milton, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Harry Sidebottom, Patrick Bishop, Ian Mortimer and myself included - have written historical novels.
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People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic 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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I believe the word "perfection" should be changed to "pure fiction" - it's just not possible!
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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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To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.
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When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.
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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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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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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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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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I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'
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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.
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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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Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.
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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 wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
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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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My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.
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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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Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.
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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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Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.
