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Fiction Quotes

My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries.

Diane Setterfield

Me Crime Exploring Same Fiction Led

What's great about teen fiction is that it's all mixed up - there's highbrow and lowbrow!

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Great Teen Up Fiction Mixed About

Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.

Crime Matter Fiction Sentimental How

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

Khaled Hosseini

Women Alive More Fiction Read Kept

Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.

Life Character Me Blood Fiction

Many fiction writers who put the science in don't get it right.

Science Right Fiction Get Who Many

Having a day job again I found really kind of fueled my fiction, because it became almost this forbidden thing where I had to sneak off and do it in private.

Jennifer Weiner

Day Job Kind Fiction Where Off

There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened.

Life People Want More Fiction Adult

Fiction is a report from the interior.

Deborah Eisenberg

Fiction Interior Report

Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer.

Time Me Writing Fiction Academic

Misconceptions about Young Adult fiction aren't new to fans of the genre. From being dismissed as mindless fluff for 'Twilight'-obsessed tweens, to constant warnings that the genre is dying, kerfuffles between the media and readers occur with alarming regularity.

Jennifer Armintrout

Media New Young Dying Fiction Fans

I think truth is weirder than fiction.

Truth Truth Is Think Fiction Than

I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction.

Job Feel Same Fiction Sense Piece

People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.

People Fiction Interested Readers

I did some research on cryonics and cryogenics, but I kept it to a minimum because I didn't want the science part of the novel to overshadow the fiction. Being medically accurate wasn't my main goal.

John Corey Whaley

Science Research Goal Want Fiction

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

Today Tax Income Tax Fiction Income

There was an enormous revival of pulp fiction that started in the '60s and continued into the '70s, which in large part gave rise to things like 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones,' among others. But I developed an appetite for the original stuff at the time, and that appetite has never really abated.

Time Rise Others Never Fiction Star

Fiction is organized gossip.

Catherine Gaskin

Gossip Organized Fiction

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

John Kenneth Galbraith

Why Fiction Biography Why Not

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Literature Luxury Fiction Necessity

I don't read Science Fiction.

Science Science Fiction Fiction Read

With a few notable exceptions, literary fiction in the U.K. is dominated by an upper and upper middle-class clique who usually have a tin ear for the demotic and who portray working-class characters with, at best, a benevolent condescension.

Best Fiction Clique Who Exceptions

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

Truth Think Facts Serious Fiction

The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of the novel hasn't since 1700.

Early Way Same Fiction Changed

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