I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.
When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.
I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded!
I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'
Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.
We have people being a little uncomfortable in their life on Earth with finances and so on, so Science Fantasy or Science Fiction allows people to think that there are possibilities beyond the gravity of our planet.
Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.
Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
I don't want at the end of my life to look back at just a bunch of fictional movies I was involved in that kept taking me away from the real world.
If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters.
Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters and journals to work with.
In real life, I'd say that your commitment-phobe/narcissist/bad boy boyfriend is a lost cause, but romance is shelved in fiction for a reason.
English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.
I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working in fiction.
Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.
I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.
Sometimes the truth is so bizarre and mind bending that it must be presented as fiction to be accepted. George Saunders The Bookseller
Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.
