Fiction Quotes
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I don't believe in inspiration at all. We live in a world that demands explanation. And fiction has the capability to offer explanations for things.
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If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
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In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.
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The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.
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There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
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I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.
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I certainly wake up every morning and thank God that I'm not a novelist because the theater is tough, but novel writing is infinitely harder. Especially with the economics of serious fiction being what they are in America.
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The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.
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There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.
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Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.
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Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.
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All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's make-believe, it nevertheless is coming out of the deepest recesses of myself.
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I think that if you use something from you life in fiction, it metamorphosizes into something strange and different. Afterward it is hard to tell what actually was part of your life and what is part of the story of the fictional character.
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A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.
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In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.
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The biggest problem in the fictional treatment of sex is that it's not treated as part of the story but as a pause from the story. The best sex scenes in fiction are the ones that advance the story.
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Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.
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It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells under a microscope. It will not work if you are writing fiction. For the fiction writer, to believe nothing is to see nothing.
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I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.
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I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.
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I am always interested in characters who are in these kinds of transitional moments in their lives, when it's not clear where they're going to end up. It's interesting territory for fiction.
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Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
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Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us to live a new life there; its painstaking devotion to what without it might go unnoticed and unseen; its respect for contingency, and the unlikely and odd; its willingness to expose itself to moments of low, almost animal being and make them nobly illuminating, can deliver truths we might not otherwise stumble on.
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No one in life can ever match fiction
