Fiction Quotes
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Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.
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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.
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If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.
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The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.
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The thing that's interesting about science fiction is that it is always, when it is done well, a lens on our world. And yet it is a metaphor.
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I like to think - knowing that it's an enabling fiction - of those moments as fragments from a world to come, a world where price isn't the only measure of value.
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I wasn't aware I'd write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is fiction, however flickering.
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I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to have access to, their multi-dimensionality at every moment. That doesn't imply people aren't multi-dimensional.
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I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.
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I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story, but you have to make up the story.
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Palaeontologists use fiction all the time.
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My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.
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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.
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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.
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I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.
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Historical fiction is simply fiction set in the past, and should be judged as such.
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It's still funny for me to think of myself as someone who writes historical fiction because it seems like a really fusty, musty term, and yet it clearly applies.
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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.
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Critical design aims to really push the boundaries of design and to reconsider the element of fiction.
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There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and examine what you are doing wrong. If you have not figured out how to write a simple declarative sentence and make it sing with that poetry, you are not yet ready to write an entire book.
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Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do it.
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Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around.
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The future is fiction. It will come, of course, we hear about it all the time, but the old wisdom knows that only what is, and what was, exists. The rest does not, because no one ever saw it or touched it.
