Fiction Quotes
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Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are always thinking about it. You don't take your work home; your work never leaves home. It lives inside you. It resides and grows and comes alive in your mind.
Terry Brooks -
Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind.
Vernon Reid
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Science fiction is a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.
Northrop Frye -
The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.
Reynolds Price -
Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel that has a love story somewhere in it. It can be a mystery or a historical novel, as long as it has this very strong romantic thread running through it.
Susanna Kearsley -
Like a grindhouse version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wallwork's fiction is smart, innovative, and a hell of a lot of fun.
Carlton Mellick III -
When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.
Richard Russo -
Dave Eggers is a prince among men when it comes to writing deeply felt, socially conscious books that meld reportage with fiction. While A Hologram for the King is fiction...it's a strike against the current state of global economic injustice.
Elissa Schappell
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There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which is the death of a memoir.
Nick Flynn -
If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting.
Ethan Canin -
I freely admit that I took great license in writing 'The Dark Queen,' more so than my other historical romance novels. This is largely because I viewed the book as a fantasy novel as much as an historical. I do feel that writers should strive for as much accuracy as possible but, in the end, remember that we are writing fiction.
Susan Carroll -
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.
Richard Feynman -
I think the MFA programs have had a real effect on the state of American fiction, but I don't think it's a question of "this is written by someone with an MFA, and this isn't." I challenge anyone to identify a book in that way. It's totally impossible.
Chad Harbach -
In fiction we say and recognize things about ourselves, which, for the sake of propriety, we ignore or don't talk about in reality.
Elena Ferrante
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Most science fiction is based on our knowledge now and uses that to project the future.
Judith Tarr -
Whenever you bring reality TV into the mix, it's only a matter of time before, whatever fiction you come up with, it'll become real.
Paul G. Tremblay -
I remember when they started publishing Latino fiction years ago. You had to be really good to get published. Now you don't have to be that good.
Sandra Cisneros -
Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.
Steven Amsterdam -
I love science fiction stuff - I'm a bit of a dweeb like that.
Rebecca Mader -
I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction.
Winona Ryder
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Experience tells me that fiction is fiction and that hope leads to disappointment.
Courtney Milan -
Politicians are already exaggerated. They're bigger than life in every way - their appetites, their ambitions, their personalities, their failings, their magnetism. In a sense, they're made for fiction.
Ethan Canin -
Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats vanguard gestures of the past minus the politics and historical context.
Ben Lerner -
Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.
Rudyard Kipling