Fiction Quotes - Page 8

Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far as I know nothing of the kind has ever been attempted before in fiction.

Truth is always duller than fiction.

Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up.

The word 'creative' refers simply to the use of literary craft in presenting nonfiction—that is, factually accurate prose about real people and events—in a compelling, vivid manner. To put it another way, creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and, often, more accessible.

I wasn't a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or Blade Runner that were favorites of mine, but since I started this series I have gained more respect for the genre and become more of a fan myself.

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in a way you figure you will be maximally likable.

I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction.

No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.

People who love science fiction really do love sex.

Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.

Creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and often more accessible.

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery.

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.

Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction.

There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.

Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.