Fiction Quotes - Page 71

Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing away from narrative and toward contemplation, which is all I've ever wanted.

I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel.

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them.

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction. I'm very fond of mysteries.

It’s not a lie. It’s a gift for fiction.

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

Fiction writing feels more honest to me.

You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a certain amount of vanity is necessary to be able to do it all, but any vanity above that certain amount is lethal.

Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want to see or let anyone else see, and this stuff usually turns out (paradoxically) to be precisely the stuff all writers and readers share and respond to, feel.

Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.

Fiction either moves mountains or it's boring; it moves mountains or it sits on its ass.

Dedicated to helping you create strong, vibrant, and beautiful fiction

Seldom does a storytelling talent come along as potent and fully mature as Mike Brotherton. His complex characters take you on a voyage that is both fiercely credible and astonishingly imaginative. This is Science Fiction.

Fiction novels, that's my game.

I love magic and playing with magic systems. But to me, good fantasy like all fiction comes down to good character and plotting.

I've always been interested in the form itself, so I always feel like I've never been good at going ahead with the artifice and not acknowledging the self in the artistic process, and not acknowledging the absurdity of pretending that's required in fiction.

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.

Fantasy involves that which general opinion regards as impossible; science fiction involves that which general opinion regards as possible under the right circumstances. This is in essence a judgment call, since what is possible and what is not cannot be objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the reader.

I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.

I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with a blotched and swollen face, and red rims to my eyes.

Writing grew out of the pleasure of escape. My novels are very much outside of my personal experience. That is why I love writing fiction. It allows me to leave my existence and inhabit other lives.

There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.