Quotes of: Fictional Keyword

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

Elizabeth Moon

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

Michio Kaku

Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.

Karin Slaughter

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.

Janet Fitch

Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.

Siri Hustvedt

I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies.

Poppy Z. Brite

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

Anita Diament

James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle.

Bill Callahan

The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.

Todd Strasser

The only 'ironclad rules' in writing fiction are the laws of physics and the principles of grammar, and even those can be bent.

Love

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

William Faulkner

It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

William H. Gass

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.

William Zinsser

I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.

Arnon Goldfinger

While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had in lingering, backtracking, rereading the same page.

Joanna Scott

'In Cold Blood' is not a thriller at all, really. It is, however, the first work of its kind: a true crime book that reads like fiction.

Lisa Unger

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

Donna Leon

From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters in conventional sci-fi.

Russell Smith

...but of these things I must not now speak. I will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside thickets...

The Complete Fiction

Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.

The Children of the Sky

Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.

Dead as a Doornail