Fiction Quotes - Page 64

Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.

Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

One of the many things that surprised me about Wool is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.

I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!

Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear, you have to taste the madeleine, and while you are seemingly passive in your chair, you have to travel.

It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.

Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer's creation.

The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, ... but they are, singly, as nothing without the posted presence of the watcher.

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.

The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.

Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says?

I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction, I also teach all kind of not-so-traditional fiction. And since I'm such a plot buff, and I'm really such a narrative buff, I can't seem to relinquish my - not just reliance - but excitement about those traditional techniques.

I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction.

People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.

I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.

I first tried a novel when I was 14. First finished one when I was 16. First started working on stuff that had a chance of being salable in my early 20s, then didn't write much fiction at all because I was in grad school.

I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.

Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats, Pinter and Borges. And meanwhile within those genres I was discovering Gibson and Shepard, Jeter and Powers, Lovecraft and Peake.