Ya Fiction Quotes

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, 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.

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

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

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

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.

People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.

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.

Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.

I think that one thing fiction can offer, and must offer, is a place where someone's mind and their imagination can come to rest for a little while.

I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.

Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it.

My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.

Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

Murderer who lives in my building. His name is Dan Bevacqua. Hes a fiction writer.

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

I’ve starred in a lot of science fiction movies and, let me tell you something, climate change is not science fiction, this is a battle in the real world, it is impacting us right now.

I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.

The success of a science fiction writer is if he can write a good read.

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

I need fiction like you need to eat or exercise.

As I keep saying, fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was.

I think for some reason people are drawn to stories of all kinds, for some reason they land harder when they are "true." And yet in fiction, I think there is a lot of deeper truth, too.

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people.

You can assume all photo and video is constructed as a fiction controlled by the person holding the camera and the person who is editing.

I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot longer to figure out how to write a story.

The difference between fiction and journalism is that you can disguise the characters, so you won't get your legs broken, and there's no interview tapes to transcribe.

Every photo is almost a fiction or a dream. If it's really good, it's another form of life.

This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.

Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.

I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.

I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

On the other side, if Im playing a good guy, then he has some problems too. Thats what makes people interesting, in life and in fiction.

Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.

Fiction has this special power. It has a power to clarify, to galvanize, to prophesy, and warn.

Fiction is empathy technology.

Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn't always have time to do or say the right things.

in my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore.

Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.

Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam Connell.

I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am one of them; I like the books they like.

Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction.

I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn't quite of the real world.

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.