Fiction Quotes
I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.
I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).
I was only eight when Sputnik was launched, and at that age the boundary between science and fiction is pretty blurry. Whichever way the process ran, I've been a fan of science and SF ever since.
Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance
Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.
But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.
Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.
In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.
The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me.
And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.
The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess.
Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.
I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.
The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction.
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.
Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.
Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent.
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.
Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has been something that I've been really enthusiastic about.
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.
fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
Fiction. . . . It's like goading a mongoose and a cobra into battle and staying with them to see who wins.
Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting.
I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.
I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.
Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
By nature, it's impossible to describe enlightenment! How do you plan on sharing your enlightenment? Hahaha, that's impossible. Wake up! That'll be the end of the world if you ever succeed!
The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror.
