Fiction Quotes
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I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
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Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.
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I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
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I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale. And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what’s to come, so I think that’s really interesting.
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.
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I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is what's in stores. I really do love to read fiction from the last year or two.
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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
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I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.
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If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section.
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'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.
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I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.
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I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
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In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.
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...that part of what I loved about poetry was how the distinction between fiction and nonfiction didn't obtain, how the correspondence between text and world was less important than the intensities of the poem itself, what possibilities of feeling were opened up in the present tense of reading.
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Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you.
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When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
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Real life is much c than fiction, man.
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
