Quotes of: Fictional Keyword

Keeping up the fiction. You have to keep it up, sometimes, no matter how you feel.

Dreamcatcher

An author never lies. We do, however tend to speak in a fictional prose.

Darkness Left Undone

There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly.

Earthly Powers

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.

Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

Nawal El Saadawi

America takes her writers too seriously.

The Amis Collection: Selected Non-fiction

It is not often that you see life and fiction take each other by the hand and dance.

Imagining Argentina

Fuck, if only ‘aesthetic idiom’ didn’t sound so damn poncy.

Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.

Stranger than Fiction

Fiction is as easy as telling a convincing lie. The more believable the better the story.

Shadow War

A teleporting cat! Is she yours?" Dr. Daniel McCleod. "Suki

Wyrd Wravings: An Anthology of Humorous Speculative Fiction

We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior.

Chuck Palahniuk

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

Raymond Carver

The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.

Jess Walter

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

Piers Anthony

What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

Pat Barker

The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.

Paul Di Filippo

Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.

Randy Alcorn

The fiction I'm most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.

Raymond Carver

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

Roddy Doyle

Perhaps this is why one reads fiction to begin with - to live a more interesting reality than one's daily life.

Steven Rigolosi