Fiction Quotes - Page 68

I'm a huge science fiction fan...

I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story, but you have to make up the story.

Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.

I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to write a sister story.

I may be the person who put "dieselpunk" into the conversation. I have always been a reader who reads in a really broad way. I read genre writers and I read literary fiction and I read books by dead people.

Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing - between two fictions.

If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English.

Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

I'm in love. And I like how that feels. And I hate how that feels. Because love is an invention of fiction writers.

Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.

for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.

You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction.

For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left behind a dream of my life.

I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.

the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

You can't be wrong in journalism. Take a wrong turn in journalism, and you are writing fiction. You can take a wrong turn in poetry, and something wonderful can happen.

I think it's true that that's something that poetry can go to school on fiction. I think poetry can go to fiction to learn.

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

We're trying to make something that lasts in language and there's no question that many fiction writers began as poets and it's hard for me to think of any good fiction writers who don't also read poetry.

I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism when we're making literature.