Fiction Quotes
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Fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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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 ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.
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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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If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting.
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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 think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.
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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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I never failed at anything in fiction.
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Experience tells me that fiction is fiction and that hope leads to disappointment.
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People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.
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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.
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The feeling of a fiction collapsing inside you. A fiction you’d forgotten was there. Frame, crossbeams, slats, braces, joins. Revealing the softer sapwood, which is marked by candle burns. ...Jonathan holding both of my hands under the table, one of the first times we’d really touched. You must think I’m a lunatic. No, I think it’s a beautiful story. About family and art and memory and meaning, how it’s made and unmade.
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I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.
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The Internet is changing American fiction - and I don't mean in some kind of metaphysical way.
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I don't generally read a lot of fiction.
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I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction.
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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.
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Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than fictions.
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Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we’re used to.
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Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.
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The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems to be solved. It's problem solving. Primitive scientific knowledge, primitive dreams, primitive blueprinting: to solve problems.
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So much emotion goes into writing fiction.
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History is an agreed-upon fiction.
