Fiction Quotes
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Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths.
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I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.
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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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At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.
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It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word
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Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.
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Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.
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Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.
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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'm not disciplined in terms of scheduling. I work best late at night, but I can't do that when I'm on a TV show - our hours are roughly 10-6:30, so I have to go to sleep at a reasonable hour. So I'll sometimes write fiction for an hour or two in the evenings, or several hours on the weekend afternoons - unless I'm actively writing a script for the show I'm working on, in which case there's no time to write fiction at all.
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I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.
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Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.
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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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The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.
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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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I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.
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If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not withdrawal.
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As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics.
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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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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas, and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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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'm most interested in people who've lived life in the extreme, which is what draws me to crime fiction.
