Fiction Quotes
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Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.. (Quote by - Ivana Trump)
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise. (Quote by - Philip Roth)
An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer totally. (Quote by - V. S. Naipaul)
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth. (Quote by - Edward Albee)
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. (Quote by - Robert Lynd)
I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.. (Quote by - Jonathan Coe)
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)
As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.. (Quote by - Charles Chesnutt)
I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death. (Quote by - Clive Barker)
As strange as this may sound, I very seldom read fiction. Because my novels require so much research, almost everything I read is non - fiction - histories, biographies, translations of ancient texts.. (Quote by - Dan Brown)
I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day - to - day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.. (Quote by - John Dalton)
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.. (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.. (Quote by - Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.. (Quote by - J G Ballard)
The cross is the centre of the world's history; the incarnation of Christ and the crucifiction of our Lord are the pivot round which all the events of the ages revolve. The testimony of Christ was the spirit of prophecy, and the growing power of Jesus is the spirit of history. (Quote by - Alexander Maclaren)
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. (Quote by - Jessamyn West)
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.. (Quote by - Aneurin Bevan)
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.. (Quote by - Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction.. (Quote by - Glen Hoddle)
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.. (Quote by - Dirk Benedict)
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say. (Quote by - Raymond Chandler)
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.. (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)
I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction. (Quote by - Ovid)
I do not see the motivation to lie, it is a known fact that truth can be more interesting than the strangest of fictions.. (Quote by - James Hall)
Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.. (Quote by - Martin Amis)
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.. (Quote by - J G Ballard)
Lewis goes on to suggest that quasi - realism is a kind of fictionalism, and it is here that our accord comes under strain. I do not think it is.. (Quote by - Simon Blackburn)
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.. (Quote by - Tom Clancy)
The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.. (Quote by - Bernard Malamud)
Facts have long since upstaged fiction, and the novelistic imagination now contents itself with documenting incidents it wouldn't have the temerity to invent.. (Quote by - Peter Conrad)
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we callwhat he writes fiction.. (Quote by - William Faulkner)
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.. (Quote by - Ken Follet)
If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not. (Quote by - A B Guthrie Jr)
What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.. (Quote by - Jean Baudrillard)
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. (Quote by - Stanley Kubrick)
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them. (Quote by - Richard Hughes)
A film is or should be more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.. (Quote by - Stanley Kubrick)
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.. (Quote by - Tom Wolfe)
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.. (Quote by - Stephen King)
You cannot be free if you are contained withing a fiction.. (Quote by - Julian Beck)
