Fiction Quotes - Page 38

Farscape is not what you call hard science fiction.

There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.

The end of all stories, even if the writer forebears to mention it, is death, which is where time stops short. Sheherezade knew this, which is why she kept on spinning another story out of the bowels of the last one, never coming to a point where she could say: "This is the end." Because it would have been.

Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.

Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.

A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.

Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.

English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.

Sometimes, I go to Barnes & Noble with the sole intention of moving all copies of the bible to the fiction section.

I must say that, on the whole, I prefer fiction to poetry.

Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it's a very limited one. And by and large, it isn't helpful.

It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction.

[Vathek] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even nasty. But Beckford could plead sufficient "local colour" for it, and a contrast, again almost Shakespearean, between the flickering farce atrocities of the beginning and the sombre magnificence of the end. Beckford's claims, in fact, rest on the half-score or even half-dozen pages towards the end: but these pages are hard to parallel in the later literature of prose fiction.

At least I hope - that the fiction I've written so far has flaws but has mostly been successful.

[Jack] Kerouac was writing fiction. What he did when he wrote about me...he made me out with Russian Countesses and Swiss accounts and other things I didn't have or didn't happen and so on.

I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it’s just not real. That’s what a parable is. It takes things that we all know are real, and it takes life events that actually happens, and it weaves them into a fiction that allows truth to actually be embedded.

I wrote a story for my kids. It's fiction. It's not systematic theology. It's not a new book of the Bible. It's flawed, I wrote it. All of that goes into the mix, but I love the controversy. It elevates the conversation.

The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.