Fiction Quotes - Page 67

Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction.

When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think.

There's an imperative to make sure you distinguish fiction from the fact, because if the fact is doing the work, why did you do fiction? And once you raise the question of why - why do fiction? - then you have to answer it in your text as a kind of enactment of the answer.

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Fiction can serve in a non-threatening way to open minds and, I hope, hearts to the Word of God.

Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

Fiction is my home, I came from fiction, I like to tell stories.

I have never written a book that I wouldn't want to read. The trouble is, I love to read horror, sf, fantasy, mysteries, hero pulps - romantic fiction, in the original, traditional meaning of that term, as opposed to mimetic fiction. But most of all, I love thrillers.

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.

If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting.

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have the power.

I think fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition.

Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true stories.

I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.

My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.

It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much [for women writers working] in film.

There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are so many prizes.