Fiction Quotes
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I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.
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One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
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I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing poetry; I don't want to write fiction that's about the irresponsibility of writing fiction and I've thrown out a lot of writing that I think was ultimately tainted by that kind of self-awareness.
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The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.
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Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at explaining why events happened as opposed to just what happened.
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I love science fiction stuff - I'm a bit of a dweeb like that.
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I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.
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A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.
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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.
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Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality.
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The best fiction is often how we interpret our own lives and what we see as our common due. It is created usually as a means of avoiding reality which, if seriously considered, might negate our ability to strive for what might seem impossible.
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Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
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Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.
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When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."
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People read fiction for emotion-not information.
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Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.
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I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!
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You can't write any form of fiction unless you enjoy reading it. You must be sincere in your approach. It's no good despising the form. So many people think they could earn some money from writing something for which they have no affection. It won't work. The first thing you have to have is belief.
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Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.
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I wrote Baghdad Central right after translating a great work by Ibrahim al-Koni, who is sort of a master of Arab fiction. In conversations with him I realized that translations have been my MFA program. If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English. That's how I've figured it out.
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A poet's fiction should at least be plausible.
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I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.
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I think if you looked at the kind of ebb and flow of supernatural fiction and horror fiction, it does seem to be more popular in times when were hammered over the head daily with threats from all angles, very real threats.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
