Quotes of: Fictional Keyword

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Dennis Potter

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.

Gloria Vanderbilt

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.

Peter Straub

The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.

Will Self

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

The Corrections

Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative writer.

Kristina McMorris

I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.

Paul Theroux

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

David Foster Wallace

I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.

Noah Baumbach

I've lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once 'created,' or produced, the art of fiction.

Rick Bass

I love the newspaper. I love reading fiction.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Every fiction has its base in fact.

If I Stay

All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.

Jeannot et Colin

All prejudice presents itself as piety, propriety.

Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions

Good fiction creates its own reality.

The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex

Fiction is the poor persons travel agent.

A Summer With Grandpa I'll Never Forget

I think—the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center.

Selected Non-Fictions

Don't ruin a good story with the facts.

Trilogies: 18 Sets of Short Fiction

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

Kathy Acker

My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops.

Neil Gaiman

Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

Orhan Pamuk