Fiction Quotes - Page 37

Human life is fiction's only theme.

My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.

Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I could have read in Arabic.

Sex, without society as its landscape, has never been of much interest to fiction.

... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.

Identity politics divides us. Fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations. The other, in nuances. One draws boundaries. The other recognizes no frontiers. Identity politics is made of solid bricks. Fiction is flowing water.

The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day

Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.

My fan fiction is canon.

I've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie.

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum

Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.

Fiction is socially meaningful.

Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.

There's a thing with genre movies and science fiction movies that number two is the charmed; two seems to be the best. I loved 'Terminator 2.'

I read a lot of lot non-demanding fiction.

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'

Fiction is an improvement on life

At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.

When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.

Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.