Best 4069 quotes in «fiction quotes» category

But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

But that’s one advantage of fiction, you can speed up time.

By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed.

By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work with the same surprise... both strike us as if they were simultaneously remembrances and revelations.

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale.

Character starts with the alphabet. Letters: words: sentences Character is a function of language—a collection of errors and deviations that resonate with certain behaviors. As with every other element in fiction, it is a record of a writer’s decisions.

Charlie Huston, who showran the first season [of Powers], is a novelist, and likes to internalize fiction as a novelist does.

Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller.

Comics also led a lot of young people to science fiction.

Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.

Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.

Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.

Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric does not seek meaning through extension, it accepts the enigmas of confinement. It strives for a rapid unity of impression, an experience rendered in its wink of immediacy. And so too with the short short.

Critical design aims to really push the boundaries of design and to reconsider the element of fiction.

Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.

Cross-pollination and "contamination" is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who might never otherwise meet and talk do so because of our anthologies.

Corporations are not legal "persons" with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best.

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

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore.

Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write what we don't know we know.

Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions.

...Don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of 'literature'? That means fiction, too, stupid.

Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.

Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.

Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".

English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.