Ya Fiction Quotes
Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.
I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.
Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.
I never wanted my books to be mistaken for poetry or fiction books; I wanted to write reference books. But instead of referring to something, they refer to nothing.
This is important. Money on its most basic level is a hard fact - you either have it or you don't. But on it's emotional level it is purely a fiction. It becomes what you let it become.
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.
The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.
Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with glorious misery.
You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.
Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.
I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.
Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I could have read in Arabic.
When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.
The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.
But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.
There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.
Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.
The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.
Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.
When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world
How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.
The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day
Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".
I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.
Fact is stranger than fiction. You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television. You have to tone it down.
Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.
With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff.
Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.
I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.
Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.
I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.
There's a thing with genre movies and science fiction movies that number two is the charmed; two seems to be the best. I loved 'Terminator 2.'
The funny thing is that in Bosnia there are no words that are equivalent to fiction and nonfiction. From the storytelling point of view, the difference is artificial.
