Fiction Quotes - Page 7

Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting.

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.

If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.

Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.

Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

I have found that in fiction one is freer to speak the truth, if only because in fiction the truth is not expected or required. You may easily disguise it, so that it is only recognized much later, when the story and the characters have faded into darkness.

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has been something that I've been really enthusiastic about.

Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.

Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact.

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.

With science fiction there's endless possibilities.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.