Fiction Quotes

All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper down, we know it's all on loan.

I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

I sometimes wonder what would've happened if I'd entered the competition instead - I'd probably have come nowhere and given up on the whole fiction game.

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.

I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.