Ya Fiction Quotes

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form

I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can’t be like any other author’s really.

I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.

It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention.

Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.

I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.

Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing.

fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction.

Sometimes journalists ask me, "What's the message?" There is no message. I think that fiction should not be trying to give messages. Just tell a story.

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.

You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions.

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

Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

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

I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.

Fiction creating reality.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.

If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it’s really finished as a force for grappling with the world.

I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.

A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.

Fiction can serve in a non-threatening way to open minds and, I hope, hearts to the Word of God.

I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and twitter to contrive fiction.

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

Because I write realistic fiction, I generally don't think about fixing anyone - I just think about how I want to feel at the end of the book - And I try to write toward that feeling.

The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.

I think fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition.

I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly become a widespread reality.

I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific what Tolstoy is to the Russian novel and what Beethoven is to music.

I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.

I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!

"The Wolfpack" is a real life clash of life and fiction and the saving power of brotherhood and make-believe.

Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.

I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place to work.

I am far less interested in serving as a change agent than in functioning as a prose artist, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.

I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true stories.

Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good structure in a winding stair?