Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
In fiction 'issues' are accidental, sometimes incidental. The place and the people it creates are paramount.
The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship
I can remember when Pulp Fiction came out. I was, like, 10 years old. But I remember the impact that it had.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative
Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.
But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.
The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.
Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.
There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.
In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.
If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.
I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic.
I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.
I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.
All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.
The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.
I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.
History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.
Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.
I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.
This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.
Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.
Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".
I will never do Pulp [Fiction] 2 but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.
I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.
I think the idea was to make a horror film that became a science-fiction film with a lot of melodramatic tropes.
I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.
There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.
Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.
The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.
Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting.
Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.
English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.
I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.
I just think there's something in the non-fiction form that allows you to see things clearly, if you're patient.
Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.
The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.