Fiction Quotes
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I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.
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Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.
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After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right information, it feels like gold.
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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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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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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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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 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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Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
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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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No one in life can ever match fiction
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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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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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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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Extra dimensional theories are sometimes considered science fiction with equations. I think that's a wrong attitude. I think extra dimensions are with us, they are with us to stay, and they entered physics a long time ago. They are not going to go away.
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Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.
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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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The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.
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Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things that are merely commonplace to existence. If we could hover over this great city, remove the roofs, and peep in at the things going on, it would make all fiction, with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions flat, stale and unprofitable.
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Human life is fiction's only theme.
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I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.
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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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Nick Yablon ranges widely, from log cabins to skyscrapers and from Tocqueville to pulp fiction. He combines imaginative research with probing interpretation. Untimely Ruins offers fresh and challenging insights about the American built environment on nearly every page.
