Quotes of: Fictional Keyword

Crime fiction is a way of satisfying that nosy need to know.

Sophie Hannah

Women’s fiction” doesn’t sound like anything but a slur to my ears.

Sheila Heti

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

Tim O'Brien

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

Lauren Groff

I think we have become oversaturated with tired fictional narratives.

Lucy Walker

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

Mike Mills

Fiction, however, sometimes ensures disappointment with reality

Miguel Syjuco

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

Peter Matthiessen

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

John Hersey

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

Jeanette Winterson

One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great.

Robert Gottlieb

Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.

Nell Freudenberger

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner.

Helena Christensen

Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.

Paul Theroux

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.

Alain de Botton

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

Frederic Bastiat

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

Cary Fukunaga

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

Hunter S. Thompson

I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.

Jami Attenberg