Fiction Quotes - Page 4

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.

It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.

I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic.

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions.

Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding principle, losing sight in the meanwhile of reality, whereas the normal person is always ready to dispense with this crutch, this aid, and reckon unhampered with reality.

History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics issue because it sounds too science fiction.

There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.

You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game.

Your eyes wider than distance, this life is sweeter than fiction.

The shape I'm in, I could donate my body to science fiction.