Fiction Quotes
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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
Agnes Varda -
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 -
Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.
H. L. Mencken -
Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
Tahereh Mafi -
About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new at being published, I must be very close to what I had to learn to move from fooling around with writing to actually producing professional stories. There are a lot of aspiring writers out there who would like to know just that. Write that book.SFWW-I is that book. It's the book I was looking for when I first started writing fiction.
Barry B. Longyear -
That's part of fiction, creating a world better than the one you live in.
Padgett Powell
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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.
Kathleen Rooney -
I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.
Will Self -
As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir.
Andrea Davis Pinkney -
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.
K. M. Soehnlein -
Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal
William H. Gass -
People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.
Ernest Hemingway
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As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.
Andrew Bacevich -
I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly bound blog posts or transcribed sitcoms.
Ben Lerner -
The power of story is potent and that's why historical fiction can be an extraordinarily significant way of teaching people logical truth propositions, moves you along, moves your emotions as well as informs your intellect.
Hank Hanegraaff -
I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.
Oscar Wilde -
While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.
Aristotle -
At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.
Charles Baxter
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Writing fiction is fundamentally an irrational act.
Dale Peck -
Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.
Joshua Foer -
The hypothesis is pretty; its only fault is that it is neither demonstrated nor demonstrable. Who does not see that this is purely arbitrary fiction that puts nothingness as existing and proposes nothing more than simple noncontradiciton?
Galileo Galilei -
A poet's fiction should at least be plausible.
Callimachus