Quotes of: Fictional Keyword

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

David Nicholls

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

David Sedaris

Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

David Foster Wallace

In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction.

Josh Malerman

There's a satisfaction I get from writing fiction that I will never get from screenwriting.

Jonathan Tropper

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

David Frum

All wars are full of stories that sound like fiction.

Javier Cercas

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies.

John Twelve Hawks

It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.

Nancy Thayer

As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.

Stewart O'Nan

In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.

Janet Leigh

Jules: Shut the fuck up, fat man!

Pulp Fiction

Harold Crick: I may already be dead, just not typed.

Stranger Than Fiction

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

Chris Abani

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

Reynolds Price

Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.

Nicholas Sparks

An unhappy ending makes it literature rather than romantic fiction.

Victoria Clayton

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

William Blake

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

William Faulkner

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

William H. Gass