Fiction Quotes - Page 2

• I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Writing, Bored, Way

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• Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fun, Talking, Civilization

  Brown Daily Herald, March 24, 1995.

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• Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Military, War, Stories

  Ulysses S. Grant (1990). “The Personal Memoirs Of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.398, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The artist deals with what cannot be said in words.
  
  The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Artist, Novelists, Doe

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.10, Penguin

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• Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  May, Said, Caricatures

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• I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Literature, Biographies, Fables

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Past, Would Be, Needs

  "Redemption songs". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

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• It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

  Piers Anthony

  Writing, Would Be, Input

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• Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because they don't know what the laws of nature are.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Knowledge, Science

  Isaac Asimov, Carl Howard Freedman (2005). “Conversations with Isaac Asimov”, p.176, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Writing, Black, Ink

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• I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Travel, Biographies, Mathematics

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• If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Stage, Improbable

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. [142]

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• I was always attracted to science fiction movies

  Tina Turner

  Movie, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Movie

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• I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

  Richard Attenborough

  Shame, Deals

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

  John Hume

  Age, Curriculum, Awful

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

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• Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?

  Tanith Lee

  Writing, Scary, Atheism

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• Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

  J. G. Ballard

  Writing, Reality, Doe

  "Inner Landscape". Interview with Robert Lightfoot and David Pendleton, www.jgballard.ca. October 30, 1970.

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• Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Creative, Impossible

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• Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

  John Cheever

  Writing, Cease, Experimentation

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• People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

  John Cheever

  Philosophy, People, Confusion

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• Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Film, Enough, Visuals

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• Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction.

  John M. Ford

  Games, Creating, Surfing

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• Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Unique, Roles, Facts

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• New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God

  Tim LaHaye

  People, Special, Would Be

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• I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

  Irvine Welsh

  Writing, Literature, Fiction And Nonfiction

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