Ya Fiction Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Fiction creating reality.

It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the shows on TV. I watch them all.

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think.

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.