Quotes of: Fictional Keyword

I love the word 'fantasy'... but I love it for the almost infinite room it gives an author to play: an infinite playroom, of a sort, in which the only boundaries are those of the imagination. I do not love it for the idea of commercial fantasy. Comme...

Stories: All-New Tales

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book. In adult literary fiction, stories are there on sufferance. Other things are felt to be more important: technique, style...

Philip Pullman

As a historian, I found myself all too often treating my historical subjects like fictional characters, malleable entities that could be made to do one thing or another, whose motivations could be speculated upon endlessly, and whose missing actions ...

Lauren Willig

You know, one of the interesting things you find about writing fiction is that any fiction you write has to be political. Otherwise, it goes into the realm of fantasy. So like, if you write about a woman in America in 1910, if you don’t write that ...

Walter Mosley

Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Unfortunately reality has no advertising budget.

Freedomâ„¢

It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privileged by it.

Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation

After all, addiction is just the last stage of consumerism.

Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

James Joyce

My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.

Joanna Trollope

People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet as they do for their own home towns.

Tom Shales

Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.

Tim O'Brien

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.

I, Robot

Fuck the epistemic modality; this is alethic modality we’re talking now, not factuality but possibility.

Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

A Room of One's Own

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

A Room of One's Own

Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive.

Sisters And Strangers: An Introduction To Contemporary Feminist Fiction

Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.

The Spider's House

Everything, as Peyman said, may be a fiction – but the Future is the biggest shaggy-dog story of all.

Satin Island

I enjoy writing fiction more than writing anything else. Wouldn't anyone?

Letters to Children

... in art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.

Selected Non-Fictions

Nothing is as real as dreams.

Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction