Ya Fiction Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Nobodys life is as romantic as it is in fiction.

No one in life can ever match fiction

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

Science fiction tends to be philosophy for stupid people.

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.

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.

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

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart.

There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction.

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.

Truth is not always injured by fiction.

I'm a big genre fan. I'm a big science fiction nerd and horror film nerd. I'm obsessed with Pam Grier. I wanted to be her for all of my teenage years.

The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.

It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who is different.

You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

You can start a documentary with just a camera, as opposed to a fiction film where you need actors, a crew, a script, a lot more start-up resources. It may be self-perpetuating.

In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.

If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not withdrawal.

Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.

An old novel has a history of its own.

What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a "what-if" prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head.

I enjoy women's conversation, and I think that helps me to describe them in fiction.

Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.

I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And so it seemed normal to study both fiction writing and the literary essay as an undergrad.

A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.

A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.

That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.

I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.

In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.

I never wanted to be "a writer"; I only ever aspired to be an science fiction writer. They'll tear that badge out of my cold dead hands.

If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.

And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest.

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.