Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Fiction Quotes

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

Philip Guedalla

History Fiction Biography West East

I grew up raiding my brother's comic book stash. I tried to lose myself in fiction.

Myself Brother Book Lose Up Fiction

A postcolonial writer who has often been credited with mixing the mundane with the magical, and history with fiction, is Salman Rushdie.

History Fiction Magical Mundane Been

Because I read so much nonfiction for work, I enjoy fiction most, especially detective novels and mysteries that keep me awake at night.

Work Me Night Enjoy Fiction Awake

Most fiction comes from your experience.

Experience Fiction Your Most

Even if it happened in real life - and oftentimes, especially if it happened in real life - it might not work in fiction.

Life Work Real Fiction Real Life

And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction.

Stanley Schmidt

Enough Now Fiction Here Come Apply

I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.

Curtis Sittenfeld

People Reality Fiction Seen Able

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.

Work Feel Want Single Fiction Many

I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.

Ottessa Moshfegh

Women People Down Fiction Get Shut

I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it's the same.

Glasses Bible Reading Same Fiction

Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction.

Life Try Write Fiction Adult Whole

You learn a lot, writing fiction.

Penelope Lively

Writing Learn You Fiction Lot

Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.

Octavia E. Butler

Science Think Go Hollywood Fiction

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

Words Training Fiction Working Hours

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

Me Fiction Nonfiction Different Very

I actually started out as a writer and then converted to illustration because I realised that there was a dearth of good illustrators in genre fiction, at least in Australia at that time.

Good Time Australia Out Fiction

Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.

Maggie Stiefvater

Culture Death Fiction Lived Where

I think that, as a filmmaker, you're always making the same film, regardless of how many different stories you tell. This is the case for me, whether I'm making documentaries or fiction films.

Me Think You Always Tell Fiction

I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.

Alexandra Fuller

Try Write Fiction Just Awful Did

The funny response to 'One Mississippi' continues to be that people don't know what is true and what's fiction.

Funny People Know True Fiction

Fiction needs writers and readers, and writers should cultivate both.

Fiction Cultivate Needs Both Readers

When I was younger, when I was at school, I did read a lot of fiction. I think as you get older perhaps you're interested in essays and biographies and things like that. I think it's just important to just read as much as you can.

School Think You Important Fiction

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

Aleksandar Hemon

Blur Line Fiction Like Between Fact

First Prev 11 121314 15 16 17 18 19 20 Next Last

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quotes about Fiction