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Fiction Quotes

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

Moral Know Difficult Fiction Answer

Poirot is a classic character from fiction, not a MacBook Air; he would not benefit from updates.

Character Classic Air Fiction Would

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.

Cynthia Kadohata

Day Book Write Years Fiction Seven

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

Writing Fiction Academic Began

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

Good Bad Fiction Means Happily

You don't sit there at twenty-five, unpublished, inexperienced, and respond to Susan Sontag's editorial suggestions like a little snot, rejecting every one of them. But it had a lot to do with the fact that I didn't admire Susan's own fiction.

You Admire Fiction Respond Own Sit

Art, you know, art and fiction, especially in big books, you know, it takes a while.

Art You Know Fiction Big Books

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.

Penelope Lively

Time Past Present Fiction Happens

There's a thriving field of self-published stuff in, particularly, black fiction. I don't know that other groups of people of color have that same recourse.

People Color Black Know Fiction

Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new amalgamated mush, just as the line between commercials and programs has been trashed.

Together Reality New Line Fiction

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.

Life My Life Tradition Early Fiction

Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances!

Way Fiction Friendships Preserve

I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.

Literature See Fiction Adult Between

'Parable of the Sower' is capital-I Important. Put it on the literary fiction shelf. Put it on the Holy Crap fiction shelf. Put it on every shelf. This is one of the all-time great American novels.

Great American Important Fiction

Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

Science Silly Science Fiction Fiction

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

Time Men Free Equal Fiction Sense

Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.

Writing Fiction Days Side Pursue

Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real.

I Am Detail Looking Real Fiction

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

Aleksandar Hemon

Literature Fiction Nonfiction Between

Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.

Truth Service Lie Fiction

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

People Present Entertainment Fiction

I love fiction's ability to allow me to inhabit a wholly different life.

Life Love Me Ability Fiction Allow

Speaking for myself, I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction because I identified strongly with scientists.

Alastair Reynolds

Science Myself Struggle Fiction Like

I am a science fiction enthusiast, really, deep down.

Science I Am Deep Down Fiction Am

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