Ya Fiction Quotes

This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only with the aid of a helpful imagination.

People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.

That's why I have to be a fiction writer, because I can't remember what just happened or where I went last week or what movie I just watched with my husband. I'm better off just making things up.

As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.

Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.

Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.

Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when your fiction's really working, your whole body's involved, and then some.

The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as dangerous as presenting them unfiltered.

Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.

Other than fiction and poetry I tend to read history.

In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.

You should spend more time with your families; write that novel you've always wanted to write. You know, the one about the fearless reporter who stands up to the administration. You know - fiction.

I love research, and in fact it's liberating because you have to create your own world. No one can say "I've just got back from the 1860s, and you got it wrong." Anyway, it's fiction.

There's a lot of fiction from that period that we're nostalgic for.

Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'

Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.

I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.

I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.

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

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

One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages.

I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions.

Those are the movies that we [with Evan Goldberg] always wanted to make. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, the kind of movies where violence and comedy and characters kind of work together really well.

I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.

I have to say that writing about my writing process is more daunting than writing non-fiction.

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

I, as the writer, can be very clear that I am writing a work of heightened fiction, as opposed to documenting horrible things that happen every day in the world. Which I have no interest in doing.

I've written some short stories about my personal experience, but it's not something you can use everywhere. Every novel, every work of fiction, needs its own food.

It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped Loving Her Today]. Fiction now is so experiential.

The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time.

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

I am an actor and fiction will always be my priority

I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.

I don't do flash fiction.

Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word.

I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all that history, much that fiction weaves.

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."

I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.

I have lots of fiction in the drawer, but the essays I mostly kick out into the world, ready or not. Fiction incubates differently, I suppose.

I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet.

Fiction is an improvement on life

To be honest, Im not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.

I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.

Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.

Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas.

A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two episodes. It was lovely, it was a super story and great fun.