Best 4069 quotes in «fiction quotes» category

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

I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.

I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to be as unreliable as I like.

I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore can't be seen as literature.

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.

I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies

I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.

I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.

I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.

I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.

I was joking earlier when I said that all writers are manic depressives, but it's a joke with a lot of truth behind it. For fiction writers and poets, too, there's something wrong with you and you do this art as a way of correcting it or addressing it in some way.

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

I was looking at a lot of experimental writers, and I was very intrigued by short-short fiction, writers who would write little things, what I call buttons now, little vignettes.

I wasn't aware I'd write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is fiction, however flickering.

I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction.

I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction.

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.

I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

I would much rather watch a horror film or science fiction than a comedy. I don't know why. I just like them. I find them relaxing.

I was thinking about the legacy of ghosts in fiction, and specifically the moral power of those Dickensian ghosts. Because a ghost can be a very powerful but also manipulative element.

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay rather than the novel.

I will never do Pulp [Fiction] 2 but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.

I would say I'm an ironist not a satirist. All you do is you take existing tendencies and crank them up, just turn up the volume dial. Which is a technique of science fiction, apart from anything else.

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction.

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.

Jay-Z isn't actually any better than James Joyce even though more people understand him. I'm more interested in what's meaningful within the lives of individuals. And fiction will always be central to the lives of certain people, which is all that matters.

I would love to do more science fiction. I always envisioned the Riddick franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.

Jerel Law has crafted a fantastic story that will leave every reader wanting more. Stop looking for the next great read in fantasy fiction for young readers-you've found it!

Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history that here, in her brilliantly imagined fiction, is rewritten to give us something that feels very like the truth.

Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.

Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.

Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character.

Katie Lane is a wonderful new voice in Western romance fiction.

Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon.

'Knowing' is one of those movies where you're going to get the spectacle, and you're going to have the entertainment in the grand science fiction tradition. But also, it will perhaps stimulate some discussion to help you sort out on your own where you might choose to go in terms of your own needs. Now, I say that without preaching.

Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.