I cannot recall having believed, even as a child, that the purpose of reading fiction was to learn about the place commonly called the real world. I seem to have sensed from the first that to read fiction was to make available for myself a new kind o...
I think Dr. Willis McNelly at the California State University at Fullerton put it best when he said that the true protagonist of an sf story or novel is an idea and not a person. If it is *good* sf the idea is new, it is stimulating, and, probably mo...
I transform fiction into memory.
There is fact in every fiction and truth in every lie.
He rolled his eyes. "Fiction lies for the truth.
The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.
Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.
The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.
I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.
I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.
Give me FICTION, REALITY is OVERRATED!
Goodreads.com is actually about fiction not dreading goo. But I have a profile there, anyway...
In the same way mannequins resemble people, fiction resembles life.
Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision.
God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.
History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.
To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.
Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
