Quotes of: Fictional Keyword

Everything you can think of, whether real or fictional, exists in this Universe.

Aishwarya Shiva Pareek

Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes.

Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction can do more than entertain you; it can change you

Alisa Hope Wagner

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

Sean Durkin

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

Elizabeth Bowen

It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of...

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

When you are thirteen, you spend all your time imagining what it would be like to live in a world where you could pay a robot for sex. And that sex would cost a dollar. And the only obstacle to getting that sex would be making sure you had four quart...

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

I read and reread and recommended and rarely rejected, became one of those readers who will read trashy stories as long as they're not too terrible--well, even perhaps the truly terrible ones--and will reread something she's already read, even if it'...

Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City

Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood. The moment it tries to be anything else it becomes cheap, puerile, and unconvincing. Pr...

Notes On Writing Weird Fiction

And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and savaged everywhere he could. But for the boy who had somehow turned into that man, the boy whose gentle hand had comforted her childhood hurts,...

Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

The writer's characters must stand before us with a wonderful clarity, such continuous clarity that nothing they do strikes us as improbable behavior for just that character, even when the character's action is, as sometimes happens, something that c...

The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the engine of progress, would not even exist. Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencie...

Mario Vargas Llosa

Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly human in a world that half the time we're in love with and half the time scares the hell out of us. Any f...

Frederick Buechner

When in doubt, be ridiculous.

Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction

Don't be a fool, there is no such thing as just a girl.

Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

Cloud Atlas

Soylent Brown? It ain’t people, but it comes from them.

Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions

If it's fiction, then it better be true.

The Toughest Indian in the World

Clichés so often befall vain people.

Walks With Men: Fiction

The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.

Joyce Carol Oates