Ya Fiction Quotes

I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

Kamby Bolongo Mean River is an original and fearless fiction. It bears genetic traces of Beckett and Stein, but Robert Lopez's powerful cadences and bleak, joyful wit are all his own.

Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.

For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left behind a dream of my life.

I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.

Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life.

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'

the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind - mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it.

The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being.

I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if you can feel it convincingly.

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well.

Science fiction tends to be philosophy for stupid people.

A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.

No one in life can ever match fiction

Nobodys life is as romantic as it is in fiction.

I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had telepathic powers.

First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

Good fiction challenges us as much as it entertains and these days, we could do with both of these things.

I prefer fact to fiction.

The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.

In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it.

Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.

I'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.

I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds.

History is an agreed-upon fiction.

Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction.

Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.

For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science.

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

Jerel Law has crafted a fantastic story that will leave every reader wanting more. Stop looking for the next great read in fantasy fiction for young readers-you've found it!

How easy it is to tell tales!

I started writing nonfiction because nonfiction is well-suited to subjects that, if you wrote them as fiction, people would say, "I don't believe this. This is a little outlandish".

The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is.

More people pay attention to fiction and to narrative than pay attention to journalism. That's quite sad. More people pay attention to television than to prose. That's equally sad, if not more so.

Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.

When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction. I'm very fond of mysteries.

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.

It’s not a lie. It’s a gift for fiction.

I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel.

It's ironic: In movies, the most successful films of all time have been sci-fi or fantasy. By far. But a lot of people won't even read science fiction books.

You can't hide behind the guise of fiction. No matter how autobiographical a fictional scene is, you can always tell the reader - in protecting yourself - that you made it up.