Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties -- all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name's Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone ...
There is something magical to me about literature and fiction and I think it can do things not only that pop culture cannot do but that are urgent now: one is that by creating a character in a work of fiction you can allow a reader to leap over the w...
In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.
Most fan fiction is terrible.
A fictional Dystopia is better than a fake Utopia.
There is no fact or fiction, only imagined truths.
Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.
I don't generally read a lot of fiction.
I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.
Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.
Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality.
The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.
Fiction is but truth.. tweaked or disguised.
Fiction isn't what 'was'. It's 'what if'?
You learn a lot, writing fiction.
Fiction is the best the self-help book.
There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction.
I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.
Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction.
Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
Trust me, I write fiction.
