Fiction Quotes
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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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Because the character is a fiction, he's a composite of other contributors to the science that brought this enzyme therapy through the process. We had the opportunity to make him up out of those things that helped tell the story. We wanted to create both ally and antagonist for John ...
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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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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 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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Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.
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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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In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and compelling nonfiction are not always identical to the ones that make good fiction.
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I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.
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"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."
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As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir.
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The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.
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I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet.
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Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.
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Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
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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.
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I was looking at a lot of experimental writers, and I was very intrigued by short-short fiction, writers who would write little things, what I call buttons now, little vignettes.
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Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity's nature that undermine our best attempts at organizing ourselves into social units.
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Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
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I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.
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I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
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The subject of feminism cannot be purely a fiction, as some postmodern writers suggest, produced by the discourses of power.
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What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever. I just gather material and find a scenario, and see where it takes me. I don't have a plan.
