Best 4069 quotes in «fiction quotes» category

The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as dangerous as presenting them unfiltered.

The truth is stranger than fiction . . . and often more incriminating.

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.

The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between the fantastic and the drab seems too narrow.

The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting.

The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.

The variety within Mann's fiction is impressive and fascinating. But Joyce is even more various and many-sided. He begins his career with a wonderful sequence of bleak studies about the ways in which human lives can go awry - in my view, Dubliners is underrated.

The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day

The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems quite inimical to the dreamy state out of which fiction comes which seems so much less causally repetitive than the way one works on computers.

'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

[The Women's Room] is one of those pieces of fiction that reveals itself in a different way every time. It's incredible.

[The Women's Room] is very much a white woman's piece of fiction, for sure. But for me, as a white woman, I related to a lot of it and continue to as I've gotten older, and especially at this moment in time, I want to read it again.

The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of the One who made it, so a work of fiction, for better or worse, will reveal the writer.

The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is.

The world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I write fiction, it is the chart by which I must steer.

the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

They couldn’t have known that even this was a lie—that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven’t chosen at all. 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.

They have an amazing proliferation of TV channels now: The all-cartoon channel, the 24-hour-science fiction channel. Of course, to make room for these they got rid of the Literacy Channel and the What's Left of Civilization Channel.

This is a collection of dexterous, loving, beautifully optimistic work that left me breathless and delighted.... Hannu Rajaniemi's magnificent science fiction - as is paradoxically appropriate - is pure magic.

They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.

This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only with the aid of a helpful imagination.

This is one of the ways fiction is more liberating than nonfiction - I don't have to be so concerned with fact. I had the paradigm of certain people in my head who became my characters, but I never considered these people to be from a "certain sector of society," unless we agree that we're all from certain sectors of society.

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Those are the movies that we [with Evan Goldberg] always wanted to make. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, the kind of movies where violence and comedy and characters kind of work together really well.

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that assumes the nature of a fiction, an illusion, a devilish apparition. To a greater or lesser extent this applies to all the postcommunist countries.

Though I later found a career as a journalist and an essayist, fiction is my first love and I never left it, even though there was no easy way to make a living from it.

To be honest, Im not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.

Time is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction. There is no such thing as time.

To be perfectly frank: I don't write women's fiction. I write intimate, gritty, realistic, character-driven fiction that happens to be thrown into the women's fiction category.

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.

Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact.

To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.

Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

To my mind, the prose in a non-fiction work that's going to endure has to be of the same quality as the prose in a work of fiction that endures.

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.

Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction.

Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece.

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Truth is only stranger than fiction if you're a stranger to the truth. Which means you're either a liar or you're fictional.

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

To think that humans evolved from lower species BUT the evolutionary process somehow came to a halt and we all arrived at the finish line simultaneously is to embrace a fiction possibly more implausible than Christianity.

To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.