Quotes of: Fictional Keyword

In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.

Joni Mitchell

Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

Robert Boswell

I would like to explore comedy, I want to do more theatre, and I definitely want a future in film. I love science-fiction.

Jessica Raine

It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction.

Kelli O'Hara

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

Henry Miller

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

Isabel Allende

I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction.

Joel Edgerton

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Virginia Woolf

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

Al Sharpton

It's very difficult to judge yourself. Extreme self-doubt is only attractive when it's fictionalized. Which is why people love the movies. They are so reassuring.

Claire Danes

To be honest, I'm not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.

Chang-Rae Lee

I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.

Curtis Sittenfeld

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

Herman Wouk

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

Herman Wouk

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.

Iain M. Banks

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

Jami Attenberg

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.

Jacques Barzun

(M)ysteries in fiction are seldom as insoluble as those in life, as most writers can't resist the lure of omniscience.

Dennis McFadden

My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries.

Diane Setterfield

Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.

Emma Donoghue

Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.

Christian Baloga