Quotes of: Fictional Keyword

Time isn't an orderly stream. Time isn't a placid lake recording each of our ripples. Time is viscous. Time is a massive flow. It is a self-healing substance, which is to say, almost everything will be lost. We're too slight, to inconsequntial, despi...

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

So. If this was some normal fictional young-adult book, this is the part of the story where after the film, the entire high school would rise to their feet and applaud, and Earl and I would find True Acceptance and begin to Truly Believe in Ourselves...

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

4. Men's novels are about how to get power. Killing and so on, or winning and so on. So are women's novels, though the method is different. In men's novels, getting the woman or woman goes along with getting the power. It's a perk, not a means. In wo...

Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems

Imagine the same scene in HAMLET if Pullman had written it. Hamlet, using a mystic pearl, places the poison in the cup to kill Claudius. We are all told Claudius will die by drinking the cup. Then Claudius dies choking on a chicken bone at lunch. The...

Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth

One of my favourite things to do when I write is to bring a sense of wonder to a normal everyday setting... Yes, there are magical elements, but there are also very down-to-earth elements and often what shines through isn’t the magic, but the lante...

Charles de Lint

For so long considered a second-rate category to other writing genres, Science Fiction should be allotted its true place in literature. The reason Science Fiction is so important is because SF authors create the future. They bring through ideas, tech...

Joseph Duda

I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.

Collected Fictions

Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?

The Collector

Fictional stories were written so that they real, kind of like a well-executed lie.

Chain Mail: Addicted to You

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

Fangirl

You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing...

Fiction Writer's Workshop

If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.

Bad Feminist: Essays

Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.

Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

Between the Lines

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

John Hume

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

Taiye Selasi

I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.

Daniel Handler

A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction.

John Updike

Making a living out of acting sounded like science-fiction when I was growing up. I didn't know anyone around me who lived from anything related to art.

Penelope Cruz

Fiction means never letting the pure truth get in the way of a good story.

The Adventures of the Omaha Kid

Even if they are fictional, I always thought that mermaids were beautiful creatures. Of course, they don’t compare to you, but still…

Insatiable