Top 1200 Realistic Fiction Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

I love all kinds of books, which include fiction and non-fiction.

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

Truth is stranger than fiction," as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary, I can't help crying and then I think to myself, "Fiction can't compete with this." But when I mentioned this to a veteran manga artist friend of mine he said that "fiction brings salvation to characters in stories that would otherwise have no salvation at all." His words strengthened the conviction of my manga spirit.

All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.

I don't really read non-fiction, but I have grown up on a steady diet of Wodehouse and, of course, science fiction.

It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

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

History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding.

I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.

I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.

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

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."

I have lots of fiction in the drawer, but the essays I mostly kick out into the world, ready or not. Fiction incubates differently, I suppose.

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different lives.

Being a fan of science fiction, I collect a lot of science fiction art work and so if you go to my house there's like a library and you just geek out on science fiction material. A lot of the colony worlds specifically are built as a melting pot of different societies, because the world is at a point where there are only two zones that are left inhabitable.

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

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.

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

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

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

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

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

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

I'm a big fan of non-fiction, and I am a believer that fact is much more exciting than fiction.

All American fiction could be classified as immigrant fiction.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction.

[I like to read] spiritual books, non-fiction, fiction, I have my moods.

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.

I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.

Short fiction and the novel, nonfiction and fiction, electronic texts and books - these are not opposites. One need not destroy the other to survive.

Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction.

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction.

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

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

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

Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.

I grew up a really nerdy kid. I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously, for the first 16 years of my life. I read a lot of classic Cold War science fiction, which is much of the best science fiction, so I speak the language well, which is a commodity that's not easy to come by in Hollywood.

Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

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'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what fiction is, and should be.

I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things.

Science fiction is fantasy about issues of science. Science fiction is a subset of fantasy. Fantasy predated it by several millennia. The '30s to the '50s were the golden age of science fiction - this was because, to a large degree, it was at this point that technology and science had exposed its potential without revealing the limitations.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

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

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

I try and make non-fiction films that feel like fiction, so I'm always looking for the subtext and that's what really excites me.

Fiction is my home, I came from fiction, I like to tell stories.

Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.