Ya Fiction Quotes

Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?

... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.

It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used to, mainly because it's like you are deconstructing it all the time.

The subject of feminism cannot be purely a fiction, as some postmodern writers suggest, produced by the discourses of power.

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some order, and writing fiction is the only way I've found that seems to begin to do that.

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.

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.

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

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

What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time.

I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.

I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.

I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.

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.

And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense.

I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.

People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.

Reality is in the business of killing off fiction.

The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased out of life.

Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction.

Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie. I know what he means, and I agree.

Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.

The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.