Fiction Quotes - Page 19

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

I love the resource of the Internet. I use it all the time. Anything I'm writing - for example, if I'm writing a scene about Washington D.C. and I want to know where this monument is, I can find it right away, I can get a picture of the monument, it just makes your life so much easier, especially if you're writing fiction. You can check stuff so much quicker, and I think that's all great for writers.

Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too farfetched.

Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction.

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.

In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

What we remember is probably fiction anyway.

Much blood has also been spilled on the carpet in attempts to distinguish between science fiction and fantasy. I have suggested an operational definition: science fiction is something that COULD happen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something that COULDN'T happen - though often you only wish that it could.

Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

All novels are experimental.

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay rather than the novel.

For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.

Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old - obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.

That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?

I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.

Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal of good material if life hasn't been peachy (and not a whole lot if it has).