Ya Fiction Quotes

I think we tried to make a film [Moon] that was about human beings as opposed to going from one special effects set piece to the next one, which is what a lot of science fiction films these days do.

I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.

Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.

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.

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.

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.

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

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really quite shallow.

For fiction, Im not particularly nationalistic. Im not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.

Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being able to think about that.

People read fiction... to learn something about how to live their lives.

I think it's true that that's something that poetry can go to school on fiction. I think poetry can go to fiction to learn.

My teaching forces me to articulate what I think works in a piece of fiction and how I think it works. All of that gives me energy as a writer.

The feeling of being an outsider, and the identity theme, are hardwired into me. If there's anything really autobiographical in my fiction, it's that feeling. I always feel that way.

I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot.

In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in love with books.

Fiction is fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic.

I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.

I really don't know enough about the structure of fiction.

Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale.

I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.

And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never would have something you recognize immediately.

Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and perhaps it is my avid reading that has been my faith all along.

I can't claim to be disenchanted "with the current state of fiction" because I read so little of it. My reading is mostly drawn to history.

I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.

Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea of absolute seriousness.

As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels.

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.