Ya Fiction Quotes

Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.

[She] always knew he was a fiction but believed in him anyway.

I would never ever condone any violence of any kind. But in the theater of fiction, blood is delightful.

This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.

It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me it often feels like a brutal trivialization of reality.

I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is either lying or being foolish.

Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.

Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by the road and making something beautiful out of it.

I can't stomach any kind of notion that serious fiction is good for us, because I don't believe that everything that's wrong with the world has a cure.

I have a lot of theories about the beneficial effects of fiction, but I'm always trying to get away from them a little bit.

Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says?

For me, the fiction writer's job is to take the small, stupid process of learning to use an iPhone - and suddenly you're the guy who's asking your daughter, "When I go on Facebook, can it see me?"

There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are so many prizes.

When somebody you've known for 20 years, and with whom you have a full context, winks at you or whatever, it can be huge. I think in a sense what you're trying to re-create in fiction is that.

I'm all about nonfiction. I rarely read fiction. I like to read about things that really happened, facts, real life situations. That's what inspires me.

I think if someone could demonstrate to me that fiction did no good, I would still do it, because I think it does good for me.

In the publishing world, most editors are probably women. So I don't see the publishing world as a male-dominated one, especially within fiction.

In fiction, conceptualizing, I've found, produces dull and over-controlled text.

I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much [for women writers working] in film.

I watched a documentary about the immigrant crisis around the world. And it does make me blush at all the times I've stood up on the stage and given your speech about the healing power of fiction.

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views.

My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.

I took the liberty in Snowboarding to Nirvana to do a type of parody of what I suppose you would call "New Age fiction."

I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.

I had always been wary of doing any autobiographical movies, truly feeling at home with fiction.

The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.

The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, ... but they are, singly, as nothing without the posted presence of the watcher.

In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read it.

God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.

The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression.

Think of my movies as heightening our awareness, not confusing the difference between truth and fiction, but heightening our awareness of how confused we can become about what is real.

Lizzie Pepper is pure fiction! The character is pulled from tabloids. But I think we all look at celebrity marriages and invest in them.

It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.

The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.

I researched fiction writing for months before I taught my first class, much of it looking for strong techniques from bestselling authors.

Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.

fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.

As a genre-bending blend of police procedural and science fiction, The Silk Code delivers on its promises.

Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I can't. Wanting to and not being able to has lead to a lot of misery in my life.

Jax Cassidy is a brilliant new voice in contemporary fiction. Full of heat, seduction, and romance, her winning characters are sure to capture your heart and find a place on your keeper shelf.

I was thinking about the legacy of ghosts in fiction, and specifically the moral power of those Dickensian ghosts. Because a ghost can be a very powerful but also manipulative element.

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service.

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.

I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story, but you have to make up the story.