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Fiction Quotes

Life is not a piece of tragic fiction in which, at the end of the reading, we all get up and go out for drinks.

Marianne Williamson

Life Reading End Go Out Fiction

I liked 'Star Wars' as a kid. I liked science fiction.

Forest Whitaker

Science Science Fiction Kid Fiction

As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real.

People Create Real Fiction Days

It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the shows on TV. I watch them all. I like 'Detective Frost.'

Love London Secret Fiction Watch

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Marquis de Sade

Truth Imagination Fiction Far Than

Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).

Reading Distance Say Fiction Careful

I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.

Great Poetry American Fiction Frost

At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.

Writing Teach More Fiction Anything

Most of my work is science fiction, with many a spaceship but few cars.

Work Science Science Fiction Fiction

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

Existence Fiction Along Come Methods

In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.

You Go Know Borders Fiction

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

Science Experience You See Fiction

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

Margaret Atwood

Science Me Science Fiction Fiction

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.

Think Awareness Fiction Social Raise

I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.

Writing Action Down Hand Fiction

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

Leonard Susskind

Science Me Weird Interesting Fiction

I'm not sure what to call 'Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary.' Nonfiction? Movie/toy fiction? But it is any Lego/'Star Wars' kid's dream. Call it spectacular.

Dream Lego Kid Fiction Star Sure

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

Life Plan Fiction Just Awful Lot

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Today Fiction Successful Nonfiction

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

Fiction Read Novels Lot Mostly

I feel that there is not an endlessly expandable universe of fiction readers.

Jonathan Galassi

Universe Feel Fiction I Feel Readers

I've always been most drawn to fiction that wrestles with that death-fear. Sometimes I joke with my students, 'If no one is in danger of dying, I'm not interested,' but of course I'm not really joking.

Laura van den Berg

Sometimes Dying Always Joke Fiction

As a teenager, I didn't read a ton of teen fiction, and now I feel like I wish that I had.

Teen Feel Wish Now I Wish Fiction

Take it from me: I really love making things up, which is why I write fiction for a living.

Love Me Living Why Write Fiction

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