Top 1200 Fiction Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I made up my mind that I will do fiction in films and non-fiction in TV.

I swing with a lot of torque from non-fiction to fiction, and I really like that place in between.

History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics and police procedure in crime fiction. Westerns - gasp - describe the West. Techno-thriller readers expect to learn something about technology from their fiction.

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better.

I love 19th century fiction and, in particular, fiction written by and about women.

Everybody should read fiction… I don’t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid culture that won’t educate its people to read these things. It would be a much more interesting place if it would. And it’s not just that mechanics and plumbers don’t read literary fiction, it’s that doctors and lawyers don’t read literary fiction. It has nothing to do with class, it has to do with an anti-intellectual culture that doesn’t trust art.

Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.

Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.

I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read children's books, adult books, current authors, and classics, but I like fiction the most.

Comedy is like fictional charm. It's the charm of fiction. Or the charisma of fiction. When you meet somebody who's immediately charismatic, you're attracted to that person. And in fiction it's got to come out in either one of two ways: in the prose itself, and you're hooked immediately because you never want to leave such a colorful and penetrating world. Or, it's simply being a funny writer.

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

Now, I'm a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people's imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn't. Conservatives typically haven't written much fiction - specifically political thrillers - over the years to educate, inspire and mobilize people on issues of great import, but we ought to.

I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later.

If the memoirist is borrowing narrative techniques from fiction, shouldn't the novelist borrow a few tricks from successful non-fiction?

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.

Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction.

There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeeth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. It would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band.

Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions.

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

It's funny because when I was growing up, I was really into science fiction and fantasy as a kid. And, when I first became a screenwriter, I ended up really just doing historical drama and non-fiction based stuff, like Band of Brothers and stuff that didn't get made, but was also non-fiction.

I do think that science fiction ideas are best expressed through visual media like film and TV. Realist literature depicts things that we have seen in life, but science fiction is different: what it depicts exists only in the author's imagination. When it comes to science fiction, the written word is inadequate.

There's an imperative to make sure you distinguish fiction from the fact, because if the fact is doing the work, why did you do fiction? And once you raise the question of why - why do fiction? - then you have to answer it in your text as a kind of enactment of the answer.

Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

I'm very strict in my belief that non-fiction should be truthful, and fiction is for invented narratives.

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

With non-fiction, there is the struggle to be accurate. With fiction, it is a bit different: the desire to let imagination take you to new places.

As I keep saying, fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was.

There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.

I read anything and everything. Comfort food for my brain is fantasy fiction or science fiction.

I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.

Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.

Historical fiction is simply fiction set in the past, and should be judged as such.

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks.

I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative.

I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot.

I think all of us begin as writers. I wanted to be a writer from the time I as eight, long before I heard of jazz. The question is, once you have that obsession, what is your subject going to be and you often don't know for some time. It might become fiction, it might be non-fiction, and if it's non-fiction it can go in any number of directions.

I don't like docudramas. Documentaries should not go together with fiction, or half-fiction or quarter-fiction. The two should not go together. They cannot mix.

I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative

I read both in French and English and often a couple of books at once, mixing fiction and non-fiction.

I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction, I also teach all kind of not-so-traditional fiction. And since I'm such a plot buff, and I'm really such a narrative buff, I can't seem to relinquish my - not just reliance - but excitement about those traditional techniques.

there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.

Whenever you're dealing with something that's difficult to describe, that you can't get across to someone in a sound bite, it sounds like the normal default is to pick what's easiest, and in the case of fiction written by women, fiction involving women, fiction involving any sort of relationship, the word that comes to mind is 'romance.'

It had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science fiction is old, you can only read it as being pretty much about the moment in which it was written. But it seemed to me that the toolkit that science fiction had given me when I started working had become the toolkit of a kind of literary naturalism that could be applied to an inherently incredible present.

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.