Fiction Quotes

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.

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.

In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

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.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

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

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

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