Fiction Writers Quotes - Page 10

• The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Examination, Fiction, Freak

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• Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

  Janette Rallison

  Lying, Believe, Fiction

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• Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing technological world and as a result. The mainstream hasn’t excluded SF; the mainstream has excluded itself. No one told Jules Verne he was a science fiction writer, but he invented the 20th century.

  Walter Mosley

  Writing, Mutation, Fiction

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• By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.

  Wallace Stegner

  Memories, Mind, Serious

  Wallace Stegner (2002). “On Teaching and Writing Fiction”, p.12, Penguin

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

  Walter Mosley

  Thinking, Fiction, Interviews

  "Easy does it: Mosley brings back detective hero". Interview with Chris Talbott, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. December 7, 2011.

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• I don't think any religion makes any sense and I think people who are into that are really getting duped, and I don't think Judaism makes any more sense than Christianity, and I don't think Christianity makes any more sense than Scientology. But here's a guy, L. Ron Hubbard, who told all his friends, 'Look, I'm gonna start a religion, 'cause I can't make any money as a science fiction writer.' I mean, he admitted that publicly! At least with Jesus Christ, you can't go talk to the guy.

  Howard Stern

  Jesus, Mean, Thinking

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• The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal through the senses with abstractions.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Perception, Fiction, Crafts

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.67, Macmillan

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