Quotes of: Fictional Keyword

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

Writings And Speeches

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

Alice Munro

If you have to write a fictional adventure to convey a philosophy of evil, the best person is the destroyer of evil himself, Lord Shiva.

Amish Tripathi

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

Ellen Hopkins

I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.

Gary Oldman

Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.

Jonathan Coe

If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section.

Nicholas Sparks

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

Pat Barker

I think what a lot of fiction is, is the imagining of the worst so as to prepare ourselves.

Paul Bloom

Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head.

Robert Harris

Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media.

Robert Lutz

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.

Steven Soderbergh

It gets scary when you're dealing with people who don't know how to separate fact from fiction.

Tracy Morgan

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

Jeanette Winterson

There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'.

Joss Whedon

Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination.

Jeanette Winterson

I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the world.

Kirby Bliss Blanton

It's hard to get justice in the real world. It's possible in fiction.

Lauren Beukes

I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.

Lorin Stein

In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.

Mika

Everything bleeds into everything and fiction is just this funny desperate little attempt to staunch the bleeding.

Meghan Lamb