Quotes of: Fictional Keyword

I love the idea of real-life experiences finding their way into fiction. I think that's really cool.

Joel Edgerton

This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.

David Gemmell

There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.

James D'arcy

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

Diablo Cody

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Richard Attenborough

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

Will Self

Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.

Diana Gabaldon

There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.

Norah Jones

The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.

Varley O'Connor

Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.

John Updike

I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

Beau Willimon

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

Lawrence Block

I'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life.

Mona Simpson

Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

Rose Wilder Lane

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

Rick Moody

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.

Franklin P. Adams

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

Christopher Fry

I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

Ira Glass

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

Irwin Shaw

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

J. M. Coetzee