Fiction Quotes
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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.
Maya Angelou
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The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.
John Gardner
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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.
Edwidge Danticat
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Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.
Michael Dirda
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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 ...
Harrison Ford
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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.
Wilkie Collins
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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.
Ridley Pearson
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I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
Sarah Zettel
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I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.
Mike Mills
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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.
Roberto Benigni
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If there’s a zeppelin, it’s alternate history. If there’s a rocketship, it’s science fiction. If there are swords and/or horses, it’s fantasy. A book with swords and horses in it can be turned into science fiction by adding a rocketship to the mix. If a book has a rocketship in it, the only thing that can turn it back into fantasy is the Holy Grail.
Debra Doyle
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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.
Paul Auster
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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.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.
Napoleon Hill
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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.
Leonard Susskind
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Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
Nicholas Sparks
