Ya Fiction Quotes

I think I was shown Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas at seven or eight. That's really bad. I think I've turned out all right; it didn't harm me too much.

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

I tend more towards what some people call literary science fiction, but what I mean by that is that it is full of interesting language, experimentation, and ideas.

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

I think it's true that that's something that poetry can go to school on fiction. I think poetry can go to fiction to learn.

I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot.

After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right information, it feels like gold.

I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.

In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it.

The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.

I prefer fact to fiction.

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.

For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left behind a dream of my life.

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.

for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the text.

Steve Mosby has become one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction.

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative.

The problem with the term "The New Fiction" is that the fiction will inevitably be old. The same could have been said about the work of any generation of writers.

Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense.

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.

To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry.

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.

[Jack] Kerouac was writing fiction. What he did when he wrote about me...he made me out with Russian Countesses and Swiss accounts and other things I didn't have or didn't happen and so on.

Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.

I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work of writing fiction.

Science fiction is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching.

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

My only obligation as a fiction writer is to the story, to make it good, so good the busy reader doesn't feel that flipping those pages was a waste of time. And I still believe that.

My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.

Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't quite see or live the distinction you are making about the forms.

If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.

I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.

When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.

In terms of writing, I think what most fiction writers treasure more than anything is the feeling that they're living for the length of a book inside another person.

I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal.

What's great about science fiction is that it allows for surreal scenarios even if they pertain to the real world.

'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.

There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.

I'm a big fan of science fiction, animation, and things of that nature. Other worlds and that type of stuff.

One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face of a character.

She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become insubstantial in the face of the fiction she's been absorbed in.