Quotes of: Fictional Keyword

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

Dirk Benedict

There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.

Donald Barthelme

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

John M. Ford

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

Jonathan Franzen

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

John Hodgman

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Frederic Bastiat

I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and if it captures me.

Andie MacDowell

Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people.

Adam Ross

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

Richard Paul Evans

Jody: [after Mia survives an overdose from an adrenaline injection] That was pretty fucking trippy... [laughs]

Pulp Fiction

Fabienne: Where's my Honda? Butch: Sorry, baby, but I had to crash that Honda.

Pulp Fiction

Jules: My name's Pitt, and your ass ain't talkin' your way outta this shit.

Pulp Fiction

Vincent: I promise I won't laugh. Mia: That's what I'm afraid of, Vincent.

Pulp Fiction

I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.

Gary Shteyngart

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

Ridley Scott

I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry.

Suzan-Lori Parks

Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.

E. L. Doctorow

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

Thomas Huxley

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

Mary Augusta Ward

I feel like we're going to see a lot more movies that mix documentary style with fiction, more along the lines of 'District 9.'

Josh Trank

In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy popcorn. No attempt was made to create movies that were somewhat inherent to the truth.

Michio Kaku