Best 4069 quotes in «fiction quotes» category

People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going to be, and you're looking for some way forward, fiction is a great friend.

People who love science fiction really do love sex.

People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.

Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping of space and time, stuff like that.

Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions.

Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.

Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.

'Pulp Fiction' blew my mind; beforehand, I'd watch films and there was a beginning, middle and an end, and that's it. There is in that film, too, but it's out of sequence.

Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the relationship between early-twentieth-century fiction and the contemporary global novel in English.

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old - obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.

Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through the door jumps in through the window.

Purpose is a man-made fiction. Nobody on their deathbed gets a plaque that says "he focused on only one thing for his entire life!" Those are counterfeit thoughts in a counterfeit society.

Pulp Fiction is a, uh, gritty, urban satire. Pump Friction is a uh-uh, a bunch of uh, dudes and ladies having dirty sex.

Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level.

Pulp Fiction is my favorite movie of all time.

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

Reading Tomato Red-the first Daniel Woodrell novel I came upon-was a transformative experience. It expanded my sense of the possibilities not only of crime fiction, but of fiction itself-of language, of storytelling. Time and again, his work just dazzles and humbles me. God bless Busted Flush for these glorious reissues. It's a service to readers everywhere, and a great gift.

Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.

Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances.

Reading it now for the seventh or eighth time, I am more convinced than ever not merely that The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald’s masterwork but that it is the American masterwork, the finest work of fiction by any of this country’s writers.

Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.

Reality is in the business of killing off fiction.

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction.

Real life doesn't have to be convincing, but fiction does.

Real life is crazier than fiction.

Reality TV now doesn't feel reality TV when it started. The line between reality and fiction is blurred. So many of these people are phony or shallow, in their own right. If you've ever watched any of The Real Housewives, or those types of shows, they're all performing. Even though they're real people, they're performing.

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.

Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense.

Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.

Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.

Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth is, life itself, is always startling, strange, unexpected. But when the truth is told about it everybody knows at once that it is life itself and not made up. But in ordinary fiction, movies, etc, everything is smoothed out to seem plausible--villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word

Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.

Returning to writing fiction after 13 years away from it. Returning to the rootstock of my whole life as a writer. It's what I had wanted to be for my entire life, since I can remember, since my particular time immemorial. It's how I got my start as a writer.

Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction.

Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.

Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God

ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination . . .

Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.

Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works.

Ruy-Sanchez's works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry and intelligence in a new geometry of words... His writing has nerve and agility, his intelligence is sharp without being cruel, his mood is sympathetic without complicity.

Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.