Fiction Quotes - Page 62

Myth is very powerful and fiction is very powerful.

There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.

Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction.

One of my favorite things about supernatural fiction is its vast array of creatures.

It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious processes.

Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.

I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.

Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.

The most effective young Facebook users, however -- the ones who will probably be winners if Facebook turns out to be a model of the future they will inhabit as adults -- are the ones who create successful online fictions about themselves.

Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing.

If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in harmony or in conflict with the background.

The Bible, I've said it before, is a beautifully written work of fiction.

I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be.

Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women is pretty great. Which is to say there is a ton of amazing work out there. These women are writing hard. There's much to be said. We're on it, chief.

I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.

Many Americans have never owned a book. And others have never owned a non-fiction book. Providing them with a 300-page paperback would get them started, maybe. And even if it didn't, at least they'd own that one. So that's a serious problem.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

The subject for a lot of non-fiction is very emotional, but if you read it, it's the most boring, dry stuff. I wanted 'Torn Apart' to be extremely accessible and readable.

I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.

Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility.

The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.

I am far less interested in serving as a change agent than in functioning as a prose artist, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.

My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.