Quotes of: Fictional Keyword

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

Jonathan Evison

One of my favorite things about supernatural fiction is its vast array of creatures.

Jeaniene Frost

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

Jonathan Franzen

Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.

Jen Lancaster

I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.

Laura Mennell

I'm quite a rational person, but I'm drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction: 'Is this random, or is there something working underneath?'

Lisa Tuttle

I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself.

George Stephen

'Doctor Who' is the most original science-fiction television series ever made. It is also one of the longest-running television shows of all time.

Jill Lepore

Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time.

Simon Mawer

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

Carol Ann Duffy

Pumpkin: Garçon! Coffee! [the waitress approaches the table and refills Pumpkin's cup] Waitress: 'Garçon' means boy.

Pulp Fiction

Jimmie: I'm gonna get fuckin' divorced. No marriage counselling, no trial separation, I'm gonna get fuckin' divorced.

Pulp Fiction

Butch: That's how you're gonna beat 'em, Butch. They keep underestimating you.

Pulp Fiction

Kay Eiffel: [narrating] Why was Harold talking to this man? This man was an idiot.

Stranger Than Fiction

Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.

Steven Spielberg

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.

George Murray

One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.

Ken MacLeod

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

Patrick Rothfuss

Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.

Nora Roberts

We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.

Kate Mulgrew