Fiction Quotes

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating.

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think.

It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or pink. I think there are a lot of readers who would like to see reviews that belong in the range of commercial fiction.

I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies.

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

You look at John Travolta in 'Pulp Fiction,' you look at Donnie Wahlberg in 'The Sixth Sense.' People have liens against them in crazy ways and the audience is always forgiving - if you prove it.

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

The truth is, I can't help the way people perceive anything, from the role of financial industry in the economic crisis, to the place of women's fiction in the canon of modern literature, to the rank of mint chocolate chip ice cream as a favorite Baskin-Robbins flavor.

So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice.