Fiction Quotes - Page 3

In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.

The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.

Anything processed by memory is fiction.

I’ve often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind - mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel.

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

What's good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are similar to problems in another region.

Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.