Fiction Quotes - Page 57

There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.

Comics also led a lot of young people to science fiction.

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

I'm not well-versed in the science fiction world. I'm hoping that I'll get more opportunities in it because you get to create a new world.

Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction.

Most of the history is a divine work of fiction.

I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel you can get right inside somebody's head.

I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction that I can understand and relate to. He's a very international writer.

Many fiction writers who put the science in dont get it right.

One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to be out in front of the public. Some writers aren't comfortable with that. I don't have a problem with that.

In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and compelling nonfiction are not always identical to the ones that make good fiction.

The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of the One who made it, so a work of fiction, for better or worse, will reveal the writer.

The world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I write fiction, it is the chart by which I must steer.

I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!

With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen as privileged.

The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.

I'm just too lazy. I wish I could be someone that has wild affairs - all of my favorite nonfiction novels are about these wild affairs and postmarital agonistes - but to be honest, I'm someone that doesn't deal well with instability.

Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction.

I don't go out of my way to write Weird Fiction, or in any other genre. Some of my stuff easily slips into the Weird slot.

Happily, fantastic fiction is slowly gaining in status.

I've always been drawn to historical fiction.

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.