Ya Fiction Quotes

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than 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.

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.

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

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

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.

An old novel has a history of its own.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward.

Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.

Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.

Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write what we don't know we know."

As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.

I don't like super-descriptive modern fiction. I like, "Here's what was happening in 1582 all over the planet." Then that gets my imagination going.

In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national .

Though I later found a career as a journalist and an essayist, fiction is my first love and I never left it, even though there was no easy way to make a living from it.

Escaping into the fantasy of intellectual investigation or narrative story telling makes me feel hopeful. That too is a fiction, but one that makes me feel good sometimes.

Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.

But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.

there are elements of truth in all great fiction

Or is anyone's identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction?

The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.

I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.

Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.

Fiction is always really a labor.

I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I couldn't figure out how you could be a novelist and make any money, which continues to be a problem for novelists the world over.

I've only read fiction, so I don't know anything actual

Everything I had read in the fields of fiction and science led me to a single, dark conclusion. Humans are screwed, and so is our planet.

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

Charlie Huston, who showran the first season [of Powers], is a novelist, and likes to internalize fiction as a novelist does.