Quotes of: Fictional Keyword

I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film.

Kevin Wilson

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Stanley Kubrick

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling.

Richard Russo

Only in the mystery novel are we delivered final and unquestionable solutions. The joke to me is that fiction gives you a truth that reality can't deliver.

Scott Turow

Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.

Ann Marie Aguilar

A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.

Anthony Burgess

Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything.

Arundhati Roy

Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.

Alexander McCall Smith

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

Alfred de Vigny

In an era where Existence is incontestable, Truth is subjective, and Reality is perceived, fiction must mediate between the three.

Life

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

Vincent Canby

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

V. S. Naipaul

I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.

Walter Kirn

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

Walker Percy

People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.

Will Self

All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.

Martin Amis

If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the pe...

Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose

The photograph, then, becomes a representation of a representation of a disease that represents. In other words, in order to produce the most perfect images of hysteria, the hysteric – a woman whose illness simulates the symptoms of other diseases ...

The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France

I bring this up because in writing some thoughts about a father, or not having a father, I feel as though I'm writing a book about a troll under a bridge or a dragon. For me, a father was nothing more than a character in a fairy tale. I know fathers ...

Father Fiction: Chapters for a Fatherless Generation

...unfortunately, it's true: time does heal. It will do so whether you like it or not, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. If you're not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you, everything you have ever lost, and replace it...

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits. Gross, right? A bloody pulpy liquid mess. Look at it, try to make sense of it. Realize you can't. Because there is no sense. Ask your compute...

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe