Quotes of: Fictional Keyword

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.

Richard Savage

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Arthur C. Clarke

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

Alex Flinn

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

Antonia Fraser

I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir.

Akhil Sharma

With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction.

Blake Bailey

'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.

Bailey Chase

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

Vladimir Nabokov

If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.

Veronica Roth

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

William Gibson

My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.

Walter Kirn

Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.

Rick Moody

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

Stephen Carter

By and large, the kind of science fiction which makes tomorrow's headlines as near as this morning's coffee has enlarged popular awareness of the modern, miraculous world of science we live in. It has helped generations of young people feel at age wi...

The Door Through Space

Science fiction is held in low regard as a branch of literature, and perhaps it deserves this critical contempt. But if we view it as a kind of sociology of the future, rather than as literature, science fiction has immense value as a mind-stretching...

Future Shock

In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to the lips and face and mouth and head, so on the surface...

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger or more lasting than twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks. Or they are words on the air, compo...

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth is, and truth has a way of astonishing us to our knees. Reminding us, that the universe does not exist to fulfill...

A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that w...

Braided Lives

This is what I say: I've got good news and bad news. The good news is, you don't have to worry, you can't change the past. The bad news is, you don't have to worry, no matter how hard you try, you can't change the past. The universe just doesn't put ...

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

The great majority of interpretations of Apocalypse assume that the End is pretty near. Consequently the historical allegory is always having to be revised; time discredits it. And this is important. Apocalypse can be disconfirmed without being discr...

The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction